![]() My recommendation, therefore, would be that at least Morabaraba and Shax be retained separately, and expanded to cover some of the cultural background (which is mostly not well-documented elsewhere on the Internet). There is no place for this type of background in the Nine Men's Morris article, whereas the respective Morabaraba and Shax articles could (and should!) easily be expanded to take it into account. In addition, Morabaraba and Shax have completely different cultural heritages from the Morris games, and from each other - Shax, for example, is viewed by the Somali as part of their cultural heritage, while Morabaraba has long been used to teach Southern African herdboys tactical thinking. To capture these variations completely would probably bulk up the Nine Men's Morris article considerably, and make it more difficult to obtain clarity on the precise rules for each game. ![]() Also, if I understand it correctly, Shax has some differences around who plays first after the initial placement of the pieces, as well as when pieces which have been captured are removed after the first phase of the game. There are variations of Morabaraba (eg Sesotho Morabaraba) which are played on a different board layout. The point about the ruleset similarity is largely correct, although there are a few additional differences worth mentioning. Elembis 02:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC) Cultural Distinctiveness of Morabaraba and Shax Elembis 02:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC) Since Shax has different rules, not just a different board and a different number of pieces, I no longer think it should be merged. The article could then be moved to Morris games. Since 9MM is apparently the most popular game (there are 2,910 hits on Google for "Three Men's Morris", 903 for "Six Men's Morris", 75,300 for "Nine Men's Morris", 757 for Morabaraba, and 15,200 for Shax game), it makes sense to merge the other articles here as sections. These differences are too slight to warrant the existence of five separate articles. "Flying" isn't allowed in 3MM (as far as I can tell).Also, a player with no legal moves does not lose their opponent is required to move to give them an open space, and if they form a mill in doing so they cannot remove one of the trapped player's pieces. Some rules are different in Shax: mills formed during piece placement do not result in pieces being removed until all pieces are placed if any mills have been formed at that point, each player removes an opposing piece, starting with the first player to form a mill, and it's then the turn of whoever placed the first piece if no mills are formed in placement, the second player to place a piece is the first to move.Different numbers of pieces are used: 3, 6, 9, 12 and 12.The rules of Three Men's Morris, Six Men's Morris, Nine Men's Morris, Morabaraba and Shax are identical except for four minor things: 10 Forming two mills in a single placement - remove one or two?.1.1 Cultural Distinctiveness of Morabaraba and Shax.
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