Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 15:28:07 10/24/02
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You post made me think of other games. What I know as "Mühle" - I think the English term is 9-men morris, but I am not sure, is a solved game now. The result is a draw. There is a good indication, that black (the one who will not do the first move) has an easier game. I wonder: Can the best humans draw vs. a computer, that can solve the game? Can they draw now and then, or often? Can they draw with white, now and then? Also, with typical game search algorithms, one could expect, that a player, that can calculate till the end of the game (the draw) would not be the harderst opponent, in the sense, that it might win a match with the biggest margin. It might choose some "random" drawing move, which is not too hard to reply. Is any information about this available. As a kid, I played this game very much with my parents and grand parents. We used knobs (Not sure, if this is the correct English word - the things you use to "close" your shirt) of white and black color on a self made board. We called the game in our dialect "niini Moal" (trying to give a spelling from the sound). Anybody here knows this word? Cheers, Dieter
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