Introduction

The Game is a two player turn-based game where the object is to place 5 marks in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal unbroken line. One player's mark is a cross, the other's is a circle.

The Game is a simpler version of the ancient Japanese game go. The main difference lies in the difficulty level - go has many restrictions concerning the allowed moves and combinations, while The Game has none. The Game has a game field of 25 by 25 squares, while go's game field is 19 by 19 squares. Other versions of go include : go-moku, renju, pente, Five in a Row, Luffarschack.
Information about go and its versions can be obtained at http://mokun.tripod.com/xo/term.htm.

The Game is written in Java 2. The Java 2 Runtime Environment is needed to run The Game as an applet. The Game will also run as an application.

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