Can you play it with a regular Go board?
It's basically a simplified go from what I can tell, so it seems so.
How to Play Renju
11–19 of 19 posts
Re: How to Play Renju
#12It's interesting that the rule added to limit Black's offensive capabilities gets gamified to give White some pretty sneaky offensive capabilities of their own (I'm referring to trapping forbidden points).
Re: How to Play Renju
#13Can you play it with a regular Go board?
A Go board is 19x19, while this is 15x15, so you'd just need to avoid moves on the outermost 2 spaces
Re: How to Play Renju
#14Can you play it with a regular Go board?
Masking tape is your friend here.
Re: How to Play Renju
#15Re: How to Play Renju
#16For anyone looking to play online, the site has links to a few places and apps https://www.renju.net/playrenju/
From what I know, the phone apps have more players on it like Dr. Gomoku and Gomoku Quest. Despite the 'Gomoku' name, they're actually using Renju rules.
Re: How to Play Renju
#17In China it is called 五子棋, I used to play a lot with my friends on paper during class XD
That's the vanilla Gomoku / 五目並べ without limitations for Black. The Renju version is called 連珠 in Japan.
Re: How to Play Renju
#18It's interesting that the rule added to limit Black's offensive capabilities gets gamified to give White some pretty sneaky offensive capabilities of their own (I'm referring to trapping forbidden points).
Yeah, I didn't know until stumbling upon this tutorial that White could exploit Black's limitations. Even having known about Gomoku beforehand, the Renju rules were still difficult to wrap my head around.
Re: How to Play Renju
#19Can you play it with a regular Go board?
Pretty much. I don't think anyone is ever getting a dedicated Renju board.