Games played with Go equipment
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Many games can be played with go equipment: a supply of white and black stones and a board with 19×19 intersections, and many more can be played with minor modification.
Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a 19×19 go board include:
- Breakthrough, which can be played on just about any board shape one wishes
- Gomoku, Ninuki-Renju and its close relative Pente
- Gonnect
- Tanbo
Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a go board reduced in size by masking the unwanted sections with paper or tape, include:
- Alak (1×19)
- Renju (15×15)
- Philosopher's football (15×19)
Games that can be played without modification on the squares of a go board reduced in size by masking:
- Crossings (8×8 squares)
- Epaminondas (12×14 squares)
- Lines of Action (8×8 squares)
- Reversi or Othello (8×8 squares)
Checkers requires some modification of the stones to indicate the kings, as go stones won't stack!
It's also possible to use Go equipment as a low-tech interface to Conway's Game of Life; use black stones in the board's squares as 'pixels', and for each generation use white stones to indicate where new cells will be born. Then remove 'dead' black stones, replace the white stones with black ones to complete the new generation, and repeat the process.