Gomoku
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Gomoku, also called five in a row, is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a 15×15 Go board while in the past a 19×19 board was standard. Because pieces are typically not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper-and-pencil game. The game is known in several countries under different names.
Key facts
- Game.italic title
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- Game.title
- Gomoku
- Game.image_link
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- Game.genre
- Board game Abstract strategy game
- Game.players
- 2
- Game.setup_time
- Minimal
- Game.random_chance
- None
- Game.skills
- Strategy, tactics
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- Gomoku-game-1.png
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- Gomoku
- maximum number of players
- 2
- minimum number of players
- 2
- native label
- 五目並べ
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25 sectionsContents
- Rules
- Origin
- First-player advantage
- Variants
- Freestyle gomoku
- Swap after 1st move
- Renju
- Caro
- Omok
- Ninuki-renju
- Pente
- Tournament opening rules
- Pro
- Long Pro
- Swap
- Swap2
- Theoretical generalizations
- Example game
- World championships
- Computers and gomoku
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Gomoku, also called five in a row, is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a 15×15 Go board while in the past a 19×19 board was standard. Because pieces are typically not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper-and-pencil game. The game is known in several countries under different names.
==Rules== Players alternate turns placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection. Black plays first. The winner is the first player to form an unbroken line of five stones of their color horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. In some rules, this line must be exactly five stones long; six or more stones in a row does not count as a win and is called an overline. If the board is completely filled and no one has made a line of 5 stones, then the game ends in a draw.