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From Issue 39
Title: Winju
Requires: 386 PC, 4MB RAM, VGA graphics, 3 1/2" HD drive, Windows 3.1, and DOS 3.3 or higher.
Everybody was Winju fighting... Sorry, got carried away. Winju's not really a kung fu game, it is based on the ancient strategy game of Go which is very popular in the Orient. Go, also known as Renju, Moku, and Go-Moku, has been played for over 2000 years in Asia. Play consists of players taking turns placing stones on vacant squares of a 9 X 9 game board. If you "capture" exactly two of your opponent's stones between two of your own, his pieces are removed from the board. Captures must be made aggressively though. If your opponent places two of his stones between two of your men, his pieces will not removed. Also, to make the game harder you're not allowed to make forks, two rows of exactly three stones that meet at a common square. Whew! The object is to get a line of five stones which wins the game. So, the game continues until one player places five stones in a row, a win, or the current player has no legal moves left which results in a tie. After many hours of concentration, you too may become a Winju master.