Gomoku: analysis of the game and of the player Wine

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Gomoku, including game strategies and the development of a strong AI player named Wine, serving as a valuable resource for AI development in board games.

Contribution

It offers an in-depth analysis of Gomoku strategies and introduces Wine, a modern, well-structured AI player with publicly available code, advancing AI research in this domain.

Findings

Analysis of Gomoku strategies and concepts

Development of a strong AI player named Wine

Wine's code is publicly available for further research

Abstract

Gomoku, also known as five in a row, is a classical board game, ideally suited for quickly testing novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. With the aim of facilitating a developer willing to write a new Gomoku player, in this report we present an analysis of the main game concepts and strategies, which is wider and deeper than existing ones. Moreover, after discussing the general structure of an artificial player, we present and analyse a strong Gomoku player, named Wine, the code of which is freely available on the Internet and which is an excelent example of how a modern player is organised.