Threats
Twos are not threats yet, but they are where every threat comes from. How to count a two's potential, which enemy twos to break early and how to collect your ow
Playing the Computer
The gomoku computer is more than an opponent. How to read its moves, copy its best habits, notice what it prioritises and turn every game into a short lesson.
Openings
Seven practical principles for the first ten moves of a gomoku game: centre, compact shape, crossing lines, space and tempo, for both X and O.
Openings
The two basic answers to a centre start — beside it or diagonal to it — how renju names them, and what each one means for the next few moves.
Openings
What good early shape looks like in gomoku: useful twos, triangles and crosses, why they produce threats later, and which shapes waste your moves.
Threats
A broken three like X X _ X is as dangerous as a solid three. How to recognise it, why the gap is usually the best block, and how to use broken threes in attack