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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. Go is a strategic board game for two players. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is an in-depth discussion of the rules of Go. ... Within most systems and at most levels, handicap is given to offset the strength difference between players of different ranks in the game of Go. ... Go proverbs are words of perceived wisdom relating to the game of Go, generally used to assist weaker players in determining a good move during a game. ... Go terms and concepts are important in the game of Go. ... In combinatorial game theory, game complexity is a measure of the complexity of a game. ... A game of Go The game of Go is one of the most popular games in the world, and is in on par with games such as Chess (and its Asian variants) in terms of game theory and as an intellectual activity. ... Computer go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays go, an ancient board game. ... The following is a list of free computer programs for playing Go. ... Much computer software exists relating to the game of Go. ... This is a list of go topics, relating to the board game go known also as baduk (Korean language), igo (Japanese language), weiqi (Chinese language). ... List of Go organizations: International International Go Federation National American Go Association Asociacion Argentina de Go Asociacion Chilena de Go Asociacion Española de Go Australian Go Association Austrian Go Association Belgian Go Federation Brazil ? (Grupo Shibumi — Brazilian Go page for beginner players) British Go Association Bulgarian Go Association Canadian... This is a list of internet go servers used to play the game of go. ... This is a list of professional Go tournaments. ... Go was considered one of the most important skills a civilized person could learn. ... This is a list of famous games of go. ... Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump BANZAI! Original run 1998 – September 2003 No. ... Sen no RikyÅ«, founder of the three main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, by Hasegawa Tōhaku Iemoto (家元) is a Japanese term meaning founder or grand master. ... The Honinbō (本因坊) school was one of four major schools of Go in Japan. ... Go equipment refers to the objects which are necessary in order to play the game of Go. ... Go is a strategic board game for two players. ...

Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a 19×19 Go board include:

• Breakthrough, which can be played on just about any board shape one wishes
• Gomoku, Ninuki-renju and its close relative Pente
• Connect6, similar to naughts and crosses, but requires connecting six in a row, and with two moves
• Irensei, uniting the seven in a row objective with the Go rules of capturing, suicide and Ko
• Gonnect
• Tanbo
• Capture Go

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: Initial position. ... Gomoku, go-moku, or gobang (Japanese: 五目並べ, Gomoku Narabe, five points), or in English Connect Five (also spelled Connect 5 or Connect5) is an abstract strategy board game. ... Pente is a board game created in 1978 by Gary Gabrel. ... Pente is a board game created in 1978 by Gary Gabrel. ... Connect6 (Chinese: 六子棋; Pinyin: liùzǐqí; Japanese: 六目並べ; Korean: 육목) introduced by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, is a fair and highly complex game. ... Tic-tac-toe, also called noughts and crosses and many other names, is a paper and pencil game between two players, O and X, who alternate in marking the spaces in a 3×3 board. ... Irensei (Japanese: 囲連星) is an abstract strategy board game. ... Gonnect is a board game, which could be described as the lovechild of Go and Hex. ... This article is about a board game. ... Capture Go is a simplified variation of the Go board game established primarily as an introduction to the rules and concepts of Go. ...

• Alak (1×19)
• Five Field Kono (5x5)
• Renju (15×15)
• Philosopher's football (15×19)

Games that can be played without modification on the squares of a Go board reduced in size include: Alak is a close relative of the board game Go played on a one_dimensional board. It was originally described in A. K. Dewdneys 1984 book The Planiverse; in 2001, Alan Baljeu modified the game to its present state. ... Five Field Kono is a board game played in Korea with the board shown below, B----B----B----B----B | | | | | | | | | | B----*----*----*----B | | | | | | | | | | *----*----*----*----* | | | | | | | | | | W----*----*----*----W | | | | | | | | | | W----W----W----W----W B and W indicate the counters of the players playing black and white respectively. ... Renju (Japanese: 連珠) is the professional variant of Gomoku, a Japanese board game. ... Phutball (short for philosophers football) is a two-player board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Conway, and Richard Guys Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. ...

• Gess (18×18 squares—no reduction required)
• Crossings (8×8 squares)
• Epaminondas (12×14 squares)
• Lines of Action (8×8 squares)
• Reversi or Othello (8×8 squares up to 18 x 18 squares possible)

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. Gess is a strategic board game for two players, involving a grid board and mutating pieces. ... Crossings is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott. ... Epaminondas is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott and originally introduced in Sid Sacksons A Gamut of Games as Crossings. ... Lines of Action is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie. ... Reversi and Othello are names for a strategic boardgame which involves play by two parties on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinct sides. ... Gospers Glider Gun creating gliders. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. ...