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See www.icga.org ... Game-specific info ... Go-moku family re

Go-Moku, Renju and Pente.

Some variants of the 'Five in a Row' family have been 'solved' by computer.

4*4*4 ... Qubic ... is also a domain that evinced an interesting 'solution method' by computer.

Not that the 'solved status of some games need subtract from the human enjoyment of them.

guy