On 9qum you can play togyz kumalak online for free, right in your browser on a phone or a computer. Togyz kumalak, the national board game of Kazakhstan, is played on a board with two rows of nine holes (otau), two kazans and 162 stones. To play, all you need is a free sign-up that takes a minute; your account keeps your rating and game history.
Choose how you want to play: against a neural-network AI, online against real people, with a friend you invite by link, or with two players on one phone. Every finished game is saved, so you can replay it move by move.
In Play with a coach mode, a coach character sits across the board, plays against you and rates each of your moves as best, excellent, good, inaccuracy, mistake or blunder. When you are stuck, the coach gives a hint; after a bad move it offers a take-back, and it speaks its comments aloud, so you learn during the game, not after it.
Rated togyz kumalak games are calculated with the method of the Kazakhstan federation (ҚРТСФ), not with Elo. Online tournaments are held regularly, so you can measure yourself against other players.
To improve, use the lessons, 67 puzzles from the book by M. E. Shotayev, game review and the opening base.
Each player has nine otau with nine stones in each. On your turn you take all the stones from one of your holes and sow them one by one into the following holes. If your last stone makes the number of stones in an opponent's hole even, you capture them into your kazan. If it makes exactly three, you may turn that hole into a tuzdyk, which collects stones for you until the end of the game.
A player who is left without a move is in atsyrau, and the game ends. You win with 82 stones; 81:81 is a draw.
You will see many spellings: togyz kumalak, toguz kumalak, togyzkumalak, togyzqumalaq. Toguz korgool is the Kyrgyz name of the same nine-hole game. All of them mean the classic Kazakh mancala with nine holes per side, the game you play here.
Besides togyz kumalak, 9qum has chess, Russian draughts, bestemshe, mangala and oware, each with the same modes: computer, people, a friend, a coach and tournaments. International draughts and corners are available too. The site works in Russian, Kazakh and English, and there is an Android app on Google Play.
Yes. Games with people, friends and the coach are free, and so are AI levels up to 1st category. Only the four master levels of the AI cost coins per game.
Yes, but it is free and takes a minute: a nickname and password, or Google sign-in. Your account keeps your rating, game history and tournament results.
The AI is a neural network with seven levels, from 3rd category to Honoured Master of Sport. The paid master levels play at full strength.
Yes, there is an Android app on Google Play. You can also play in any browser on your phone or computer without installing anything.
Yes, toguz korgool is the Kyrgyz name of the same game with nine holes per side and 162 stones. On 9qum you play it by the Kazakh rules.
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