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From: berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry)
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Subject: Re: Re: noughts and crosses
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 18:27:10 EST
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> The game is played the way one plays "GO". The idea is to 
> get 5 in a row, any angle.

	Well, at least partly correct.  The idea of "noughts and
crosses" is to get 5 in a row in any angle.  The idea of "go" is
considerably more complex.  Go is a game with relatively trivial rules,
but extremely complicated strategies which has a basic premise of
capturing as much territory as possible.  To the best of my knowledge
nobody has yet managed to write a program that plays a tolerable (much
less good!) game of go.  There is, however, another oriental game
(gomoku) that is played on a similar board with similar markers that is
similar to "noughts and crosses."

	BTW if anybody knows of a go program please let me know via
mail.
-- 

	David W. Berry
	...!ucbvax!tolerant!berry

	[standard disclaimer about this being only my opinion and not
	necessarily reflecting anything about Tolerant Systems.]