Games played with Go equipment
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Many games can be played with Go equipment
: a supply of white and black stones and a board with 19×19 intersections, other than Go
and many more can be played with minor modification.
Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a 19×19 Go board include:
Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a Go board reduced in size (perhaps by masking the unwanted sections with paper or tape) include:
Games that can be played without modification on the squares of a Go board reduced in size include:
It's also possible to use Go equipment as a low-tech interface to Conway's Game of Life
; use black stones in the board's squares as 'pixels', and for each generation use white stones to indicate where new cells will be born. Then remove 'dead' black stones, replace the white stones with black ones to complete the new generation, and repeat the process.
Go equipment
Go equipment refers to the objects which are necessary in order to play the game of Go. Although the equipment is simple, there is a varying degree of quality and material used in making the equipment, from the economical to the extremely valuable....
: a supply of white and black stones and a board with 19×19 intersections, other than Go
Go (board game)
Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...
and many more can be played with minor modification.
Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a 19×19 Go board include:
- BreakthroughBreakthrough (board game)Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000 and made available as a Zillions of Games file . It won the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition, even though the game was originally played on a 7x7 board, as it is trivially extendible to larger board sizes.- Rules :The...
, which can be played on just about any board shape one wishes - GomokuGomokuGomoku is an abstract strategy board game. Also called Gobang or Five in a Row, it is traditionally played with go pieces on a go board ; however, because once placed, pieces are not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper and pencil game...
, Ninuki-renju and its close relative PentePentePente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones. In contrast to renju, ninuki-renju and Pente allow captures, but Pente added a... - Connect6Connect6Connect6 introduced in 2003 by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, is a two-player game similar to Gomoku....
, similar to naughts and crosses, but requires connecting six in a row, and with two stones per move - IrenseiIrenseiIrensei is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces on a Go board , but any equipment with which Go can be played is also suitable for Irensei....
, uniting the seven in a row objective with the Go rules of capturing, suicide and Ko - GonnectGonnectGonnect is an abstract strategy board game invented by João Pedro Neto in 2000. The game is played with standard go equipment, and basically uses the same rules as go, however the goal of the game is to construct a group that connects any two opposite sides...
- Tanbo
- Capture GoCapture GoCapture Go is a simplified variation of the Go board game established primarily as an introduction to the rules and concepts of Go. Known also as The Capture Game, First Capture Go, and Atari Go, it was first introduced by Yasuda Yasutoshi, an 8 dan professional Go player who is very active in...
- Alea evangelii (game)Alea evangelii (game)Alea evangelii is a member of the Tafl family of games.-Object:* Black player - Capture the King.* White player - Sail the King to a corner...
Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a Go board reduced in size (perhaps by masking the unwanted sections with paper or tape) include:
- Alak (1×19)
- Five Field KonoFive Field KonoFive Field Kono is a Korean abstract strategy game. As in Chinese checkers, a player wins by moving all of their pieces into the starting locations of their opponent's pieces.-Rules:...
(5x5) - RenjuRenjuRenju is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou . It is played with black and white stones on a 15x15 intersection Go board...
(15×15) - Philosopher's footballPhutballPhutball is a two-player board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays.- Rules :...
(15×19)
Games that can be played without modification on the squares of a Go board reduced in size include:
- GessGessGess is a strategic board game for two players, involving a grid board and mutating pieces. The name was chosen as a conflation of "chess" and "go". It is pronounced with a hard "g" as in "go", and is thus homophonous with "guess"....
(18×18 squares—no reduction required) - CrossingsCrossings (game)Crossings is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott. The rules were published in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games...
(8×8 squares) - EpaminondasEpaminondas (game)Epaminondas is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott and originally introduced in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games as Crossings. While the original version used an 8x8 checkerboard, the current game uses a 12x14 board and different rules for capture...
(12×14 squares) - Lines of ActionLines of ActionLines of Action is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie. The objective of the game is to connect all of your pieces...
(8×8 squares) - ReversiReversiReversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...
or Othello (8×8 squares up to 18 x 18 squares possible) - Connect FourConnect FourConnect Four is a two-player game in which the players first choose a color and then take turns dropping their colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid...
(most commonly 7×6 squares)
It's also possible to use Go equipment as a low-tech interface to Conway's Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970....
; use black stones in the board's squares as 'pixels', and for each generation use white stones to indicate where new cells will be born. Then remove 'dead' black stones, replace the white stones with black ones to complete the new generation, and repeat the process.
See also
- International Go FederationInternational Go FederationThe International Go Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Go federations around the world. It is usually referred to as IGF.-Role of the IGF:...