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   Irensei (1987)

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Who is this game suitable for?

Suitable for ages 9 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Enclosure, Pattern Building, Pattern Recognition und Square Grid...

Game Data

Average time to play: 20
Minimum age: 9
Number of players: 2
Publisher: (Web published)
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Unknown
Mechanics: Enclosure, Pattern Building, Pattern Recognition, Square Grid
Durchschnitt: 0.0 (0 Bewertungen )
Irensei is a mixture of Go and Gomoku played on a Go Board (19x19). Players win the game by getting seven stones in a row of their color. In addition, they may capture and eliminate enemy stones in the same way that is done in Go. The winning condition is to have seven in a row, vertically, diagonally, or horizontally, if and only if all these stones are inside the central 15x15 square. i.e. not on the two lines from the edge of the board. For balancing purposes however, Black, the first player, loses when he makes eight in a row or more. The capture, Ko, and no-suicide rules from Go apply. There is an exception to the no-suicide rule: if a stone placed in a suicide position completes a seven-in-a-row, then it is a win.

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Alternative names: Irensei 囲連星
Last Updated: 2025-08-14 01:06:52 UTC

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