>>> PLAY GOMOKU HERE <<<

Gomoku is a board game for 2 players typically on a 18x18 board. The winner is who gets first exactly five stones in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal). You can play this game online here against the implemented algorithm.

This gomoku site was originally created in 2002 as an exercise in javascript programming. I took gomoku as an example of board games I really like. The algorithm to calculate computer's next move is an interesting piece I do randomly change on this site. So please be aware that the computer's strength can improve without prior notice ;-) . The servers cgi application is written in Perl5. The following browsers have successfully accessed this online game: Moz1.3; Mozilla5 http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/; MSIE5,6; NNav4.
Enjoy and good luck.
Daniel von Wangelin (2003-05-02)

a javascript capable web browser.

• 2003-03-20 published improved stateless online version
  * board layout encoded in url using simple compression
• 2003-02-10 published stateless online versiony
  * stateless version does not log session information
  * board layout simply encoded in url
• 2002-07-10 published cgi-interface to command-line version of my gomoku implementation in Perl
  * simple input of coordinates of users next move

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