Gomoku is an abstract strategy connection game for two players, traditionally played with the black and white stones and grid board used for the game of Go, in which players alternate placing stones and the first to form an unbroken line of five stones horizontally, vertically or diagonally wins. The game has a long history in East Asia under various names, with its Japanese name gomoku narabe meaning five points in a row, and related five-in-a-row games are documented in China and Japan going back centuries. On an unrestricted board the first player has been shown to have a forced win, which has led to various restricted rule sets used in competitive play.
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Origin YearThis is the year of the earliest verifiable published book on gomoku, the Gomoku Joseki Collection; the game's actual origin is traced only imprecisely to the mid 1700s Edo period Sport
Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Classification
Player Count Originating Region Game TypeAbstract strategy board game 1 Connections
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Gomoku is traditionally played with the same black-and-white stone set and grid board used for Go, though it is a distinct alignment game with its own five-in-a-row win condition rather than a variant of Go itself.
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Sources
1. Gomoku, Wikipedia
Origin and name section
The name 'gomoku' is from the Japanese language, in which it is referred to as gomokunarabe (五目並べ).
Lead section
Gomoku, also called five in a row, is an abstract strategy board game.
Origin section, second paragraph
The earliest published book on gomoku that can be verified is the Gomoku J?seki Collection (?????) in 1856.
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Gomoku is an abstract strategy connection game for two players, traditionally played with the black and white stones and grid board used for the game of Go, in which players alternate placing stones and the first to form an unbroken line of five stones horizontally, vertically or diagonally wins. The game has a long history in East Asia under various names, with its Japanese name gomoku
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