* Enter the Free-style course ( with the objective of collecting " style points " by doing flips, going over moguls, etc.

Also called Gobang or Five in a Row, it is traditionally played with Go pieces ( black and white stones ) on a go board ( 19x19 intersections ); however, because once placed, pieces are not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper and pencil game.

In any size of a board, freestyle gomoku is an m, n, k-game, and it is known that the second player does not win.

Generalized gomoku is PSPACE-complete.

Pente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones.

Thus, tic-tac-toe is the 3, 3, 3-game and free-style gomoku is the 19, 19, 5-game.

* Standard gomoku requires a row of exactly five stones for a win: rows of six or more, called overlines, do not count.

* m, n, k-games are a generalization of gomoku to a board with m × n intersections, and k in a row needed to win.

* Connect ( m, n, k, p, q ) games are another generalization of gomoku to a board with m × n intersections, k in a row needed to win, p stones for each player to place, and q stones for the first player to place for the first move only.

Such long forcing sequences are typical in gomoku, and expert players can read out forcing sequences of 20 to 40 moves rapidly and accurately.

Many board games share the element of trying to be the first to get n-in-a-row: three men's morris, nine men's morris, pente, gomoku, Qubic, Connect Four, Quarto, Gobblet.

Examples of games to which the argument applies are hex, chomp and the m, n, k-games such as gomoku.

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is not the work of Katanga.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.

The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Politics is an accelerating game.

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.

`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

it must play a game in which there never is a winner.

It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.

The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.

The maximum possible score in this game is 99, 990 points, after which it " rolls over " back to zero.

The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.

** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.