Editing Nine men's morris (section)

==Variants==

===Three men's morris===
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[[Image:Three Men's Morris variant board.svg|150px|left]]
'''Three men's morris''', also called nine-holes, is played on the points of a grid of 2×2 squares, or in the squares of a grid of 3×3 squares, as in [[tic-tac-toe]]. The game is for two players; each player has three men. The players put one man on the board in each of their first three plays, winning if a mill is formed (as in tic-tac-toe). After that, each player moves one of the player's men, according to one of the following rules versions:
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| To any adjacent empty position 
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A player wins by forming a mill.<ref>{{cite book |last=Murray |first=H. J. R. |author-link=H. J. R. Murray |title=A History of Chess |edition=Reissued |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1913 |page=614 |isbn=978-0-19-827403-2}}</ref>

[[H. J. R. Murray]] calls version No. 1 "nine holes", and version No. 2 "three men's morris" or "the smaller merels".
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===Six men's morris===
[[Image:Six Men's Morris.svg|150px|left]]
'''Six men's morris''' gives each player six pieces and is played without the outer square of the board for nine men's morris. Flying is not permitted.<ref name="Bell vol. 1">{{cite book|last=Bell|first=R. C.|author-link=Robert Charles Bell|title =Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations |volume=1 |date=1979 |publisher=[[Dover Publications]] |location=New York |isbn=0-486-23855-5<!-- Volumes 1 and 2 are bound in the same book and thus have the same ISBN. -->|pages=90–92}}</ref> The game was popular in Italy, France and England during the Middle Ages but was obsolete by 1600.<ref name="Bell vol. 1"/>

This board is also used for five men's morris (also called smaller merels). Seven men's morris uses this board with a cross in the center.
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===Twelve men's morris===
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[[Image:Twelve Men's Morris board.svg|150px|left]]
'''Twelve men's morris''' adds four diagonal lines to the board and gives each player twelve pieces. This means the board can be filled in the placement stage; if this happens the game is a draw. This variation on the game is popular amongst rural youth in South Africa where it is known as ''[[morabaraba]]'' and is now recognized as a sport in that country. H. J. R. Murray also calls the game "the larger merels".

This board is also used for eleven men's morris.
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===Lasker morris===
This variant (also called '''ten men's morris''') was invented by [[Emanuel Lasker]], chess world champion from 1894 to 1921. It is based on the
rules of nine men's morris, but there are two differences: each player gets ten pieces; and pieces can be moved in the first phase already. This means each player can choose to either place a new piece or to move one of the player's pieces already on the board. This variant is more complex than nine men's morris, and draws are less likely.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.althofer.de/stahlhacke-lasker-morris-2003.pdf|title=The Game of Lasker Morris|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106012331/http://www.althofer.de/stahlhacke-lasker-morris-2003.pdf|archive-date=2015-01-06|url-status=live}}</ref>
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