The running mill

A mill you can open and close again with one piece removes a piece every other turn. Learn to close a running mill. Strategy · lesson 3 of 4.

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A running mill is a mill where one piece can step out and back in. Every time it closes, you remove a piece.

Last turn you moved a piece out of your mill at the bottom of the middle line. No ivory piece is next to the empty point, so Ivory couldn’t block it.

Close the mill again.

Try it: Make the mill and remove a piece.

Open your mill when it’s safe, and close it again next turn.