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From: pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.ai
Subject: Re: looking for name of a game
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.194009.12869@javelin.sim.es.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 19:40:09 GMT
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karln@uunet.uu.net writes:

>In article <1991Apr1.130740.19670@IDA.ORG> rlw@IDA.ORG.UUCP (Richard Wexelblat) writes:
>>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
>>-----------------
>>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?

>	I thought you could buy a board game with those rules called 'PENTA'

"PENTE" is what you are thinking of.  The game goes back to ancient Greece.
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