Editing Games played with Go equipment (section)

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Many games can be '''played with [[Go equipment]]''': a supply of white and black ''stones'' and a board with 19×19 intersections, other than [[Go (board game)|Go]] and many more can be played with minor modification.

Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a 19×19 Go board include:

* [[Breakthrough (board game)|Breakthrough]], which can be played on just about any board shape one wishes
* [[Gomoku]], [[ninuki-renju]] and its close relative [[pente]]
* [[Connect6]], similar to [[naughts and crosses]] ([[tic-tac-toe]]), but requires connecting six in a row, and with two stones per move
* [[Gonnect]]
* [[Capture go]]
* [[Alea evangelii]]

Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a Go board reduced in size (perhaps by masking the unwanted sections with paper or tape) include:

* Alak, a Go-like game restricted to a single spatial dimension (1×19)
* [[Five-field kono]] (5x5)
* [[Renju]] (15×15)
* [[Phutball|Philosopher's football]] (15×19)
* [[Cinc camins]]
* Some games of [[gonu]]
Games that can be played without modification on the ''squares'' of a Go board reduced in size include:

* [[Gess]] (18×18 squares—no reduction required)
* [[Crossings (game)|Crossings]] (8×8 squares)
* [[Epaminondas (game)|Epaminondas]] (12×14 squares)
* [[Lines of action]] (8×8 squares)
* [[Connect Four]] (most commonly 7×6 squares)
* [[Seega (game)]] (5×5, 7×7 or 9×9 squares)
* [[Four-field kono]]
* [[Reversi]] and Othello
* [[Yoté]] and [[Choko (game)]]
* Several [[tafl games]]

It's also possible to use Go equipment as a low-tech interface to [[Conway's game of life]]; use black stones in the board's squares as 'pixels', and for each generation use white stones to indicate where new cells will be born. Then remove 'dead' black stones, replace the white stones with black ones to complete the new generation, and repeat the process.