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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: noughts and crosses
Message-ID: <330@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 18:08:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 18:08:03 1985
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>In article <1988@bmcg.UUCP> bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) writes:
>>> i'm looking for a better description for
>>> the game noughts and crosses.  any takers?
>>The game is played the way one plays "GO". The idea is to 
>>get 5 in a row, any angle.
>You know naught of what you speak.
>First, GO is infinitely more complex than "getting 5 pieces in a row".
>The 5 in a row game is Go-moku (or, I think, Pente).
>Second, noughts and crosses is the British name for tic-tac-toe.
>Paul Hoefling
>Information Pack Rat
[Clearly a North American; see point 2 ;-]

(1) I read "...played the way one plays "GO""  to mean alternating black
and white moves on  a 19x19 board,  usually played on the  intersections
rather than  the squares,  not  meaning that  all the  rules of  go  are
borrowed.

(2) I found a boardgame book recently (don't have it here, sorry I can't
provide ISBN or exact title; mail me if you want me to dig it out) which
claims that "noughts and crosses" is the game of three-in-a-row on a 3x3
board, with players playing until the  board  is  full or  someone  wins
(North-American "tic-tac-toe"), while "tic-tac-toe" is actually another,
different, game (described below).  Must have  been a British book (:-);
North-American usage  (as I'm  sure everyone  on this side  of  the pond
knows) is that tic-tac-toe is  the same  thing as what  they (the  book)
call "noughts and crosses".

     Tic-tac-toe  as the  book has it is played  with three counters for
each player  on  a 3x3 board.  The  first six moves  are as in the other
game, each on any open square.  After these six moves, the counters move
as chess kings, trying to  make three-in-a-row.   Reminds me of a game I
enjoy; the  same thing  with eight men  on a  regular chessboard  (8x8),
trying  to make  5  in  a row.  As far as I know,  I invented this game,
though  it is  likely that  I found it  somewhere and  forgot about  the
original source.  (Can anyone confirm this with a published reference?)
-- 
					der Mouse

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