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### Gomoko
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GOMOKO or GOMOKU is a traditional game of the Orient. It is played by two people on a board of intersecting lines (19 left-to-right lines, 19 top-to-bottom lines, 361 intersections in all). Players take turns. During his turn, a player may cover one intersection with a marker; (one player uses white markers; the other player uses black markers). The object of the game is to get five adjacent markers in a row, horizontally, vertically or along either diagonal.
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Unfortunately, this program does not make the computer a very good player. It does not know when you are about to win or even who has won. But some of its moves may surprise you.
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The original author of this program is Peter Sessions of People’s Computer Company.
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As published in Basic Computer Games (1978):
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- [Atari Archives](https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=74)
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- [Annarchive](https://annarchive.com/files/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition.pdf#page=89)
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Downloaded from Vintage Basic at
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http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
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#### Porting Notes
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(please note any difficulties or challenges in porting here)
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