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From: rlw@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.ai
Subject: Re: looking for name of a game
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.130740.19670@IDA.ORG>
Date: 1 Apr 91 13:07:40 GMT
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In article <91090.130516ASNXS@ASUACAD.BITNET> ASNXS@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>I'd like to know the name of the following game. If anybody know it please
>send me a note.
>Two player write two sign ( O X ) on an infinite board. The goal is to make
>5 sign. The game is like tic-tac-toe but not 3 but 5 sign, and the board is
>not 3X3 but infinite.
>If you do not know the game but you like it let's play on E-mail.

Go-moku or Runjyu
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Another comment:  In 1961 I wrote a playing/learning program (based on
Samuel's Checker-learning method) for this game.  It (almost) ran on a
computer now known as UNIVAC I but then known a THE UNIVAC.

Does anyone have an earlier instance?
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--Dick Wexelblat  (rlw@ida.org) 703 845 6601
  Can you accept an out of state sanity check?