gomoku — game of 5 in a row

       The board display routines were based on the goref program written by Peter Langston.

Debian                                           August 4, 1994                                        GOMOKU(6)

       Ralph Campbell

gomoku  is a two player game where the object is to get 5 in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally
       on a 19 by 19 grid.  By convention, black always moves first.  With no arguments, gomoku will  display  a
       playing  board  and prompt for moves from the user.  Valid moves are a letter for the column and a number
       for the row of an empty board location.  Entering ``quit" or ``resign" will end the game.  You  can  save
       the  current state of the game by entering ``save" and supplying a file name when prompted.  The optional
       file inputfile can be used to restore a saved game.

       The options are:

       -b      This option sets background mode.  Input moves are read from standard input, the computer picks a
               move, and prints it to standard output.  The first  input  line  should  be  either  ``black"  or
               ``white"  to  specify  whether  gomoku  has  the first move or not respectively.  This option was
               intended for game tournaments where a referee program handles the  board  display  and  pits  one
               program against another.

       -c      Computer  versus  computer.   gomoku  will  play  a game against itself.  This is mostly used for
               testing.

       -d      Print debugging  information.   Repeating  this  option  more  than  once  yields  more  detailed
               information.

       -Ddebugfile
               Print the debug information to debugfile instead of to the standard output.

       -u      User versus user.  This is mostly used for testing.

       gomoku — game of 5 in a row

gomoku [-bcdu] [-Ddebugfile] [inputfile]