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Variants
   

This is a list of what can be done with a GoBan and stones, other than conventional Go.

  • Gomoku - Five in a row
  • Pente? Like gomoku, but with a way of capturing
  • AtariGo - Also known as the capturing game
  • The shape game - cfr. shape
  • Quantum Go - After an arbitrary number of moves, a random algoritm performs a change in status of some point
  • Special stones
  • Cards Go
  • Reuse Go
  • Sliding Go
  • Gonnect -- has propenents in the Yahoo go club; uses go equipment and the rules of go apply, but winner is the first to connect two opposite sides of the board, as in Twixt
  • Look at [ext] Variations on Go (link seems missing 2001-09-29) to see many more variations (other rules, other boards, other pieces, other players, other games!!)
  • TakeABetAtLifeAndDeath : a tsumego tournament

Some historical variants of the game:

People have also tried to play 'Go' on other than the normal Gobans:



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