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
Winning Tricks
The edge of a 15×15 gomoku board changes which lines can grow into five. How to use the edge to kill enemy lines, when not to build near it, and why the centre
Beginners
Why the first player has an edge in gomoku, how large it is under freestyle and blocked-ends rules, and practical plans for playing as X and as O.
Openings
A practical guide to the opening as O: where to answer, which blocks also build, how to deny X's crossing points, and when to strike back with your own threats.
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.
Attack
Gomoku is a fight over who makes threats and who answers them. How to keep the initiative as attacker, how defenders take it back, and why tempo matters.
Defense
Blocking looks simple until you lose to it. Which end of a line to close, why the right block also builds your own shape, and the habits that stop surprise wins
Playing the Computer
The gomoku computer never tires and never misses a diagonal, but it can be beaten. A step-by-step approach for each level, from the basics to real forcing chain
A double threat the opponent sees coming can be stopped. How to prepare two lines that meet at one point, disguise the second line, and land the blow before the
Online Play
Fast or slow, clock or no clock: time controls change how gomoku is played online. What the numbers mean, how the clock works and which setting suits you best.
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.
Gomoku Rules
Freestyle gomoku and Vietnamese blocked-ends caro side by side: the one rule that separates them, how it changes attack and defence, and which to start with.
