Shax (board game)

Shax ( in some areas also Jar - "cut" - called, also known as Mororova ) is played in Africa and particularly in Somalia board game. It has been known for a long time and today still popular.

Shax is popular with Somali men. It is usually played by marked on the ground a game field, and used stones or sticks as pawns. The game also has a strong influence on the Somali literature often mentions the style of play and strategies. In the earlier nomadic lifestyle of the Somali Shax served as communication method between different strains.

Regulate

Shax is similar to the mill game; the two games are played on the same board, but the result Shax mills formed during the settling phase is not immediately in the removal of an opponent's game piece. If the settling phase is completed and mills were formed, the player to have managed this as the first, remove an opponent's piece may. If also the second player could form a mill, he must now take the first player a stone from the board. The game goes on as before it. If, however neither player succeeds, the settling phase to form during a mill, the player who starts out as a second player in the first phase should begin in the next phase.

If one of the players can sometime make no more train, he does not lose; must establish by a train in turn place for an opposing piece instead of the opponent. If this action results from a mill of the liberating player, no token of the liberated player may be removed. The rule that a player who only has three stones, may place it on any node points is not applied.