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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.
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.
The most basic form of gomoku is called freestyle gomoku. In this version, there are no restrictions on moves. The first player (black) has a significant advantage, and thus various rule modifications have been proposed to balance the game.
Renju is a professional variant of gomoku that adds additional rules to balance the game. In Renju, black is not allowed to make a double three, double four, or overline.
A double three is a move that creates two separate lines of three stones (open threes) at once. A double four is a move that creates two separate lines of four stones (open fours) at once. An overline is a line of six or more stones.
If black makes any of these forbidden moves, black loses the game. These restrictions can be turned on in the game options.
Historical records indicate that the origins of gomoku can be traced back to the mid-1700s during the Edo period. It is said that the 10th generation of Kuwanaya Buemon, a merchant who frequented the Nijō family, was highly skilled in this game, which subsequently spread among the people. By the late Edo period, around 1850, books had been published on gomoku. The earliest published book on gomoku that can be verified is the Gomoku Jōseki Collection (五石定磧集) in 1856.
The name 'gomoku' is from the Japanese language, in which it is referred to as gomokunarabe (五目並べ). Go means five, moku is a counter word for pieces and narabe means line-up. The game is popular in China, where it is called Wuziqi (五子棋). Wu (五 wǔ) means five, zi (子 zǐ) means piece, and qi (棋 qí) refers to a board game category in Chinese. The game is also popular in Korea, where it is called omok (오목 [五目]) which has the same structure and origin as the Japanese name.
In the nineteenth century, the game was introduced to Britain where it was known as Go Bang, said to be a corruption of the Japanese word goban, which was itself adapted from the Chinese k'i pan (qí pán) 'go-board.' The game gained some popularity, and in the 1920s it was produced commercially by companies such as The Chad Valley Co Ltd in a modified version marketed as Spoil Five.
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