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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Couch Potato Wannabe, post: 1835437, member: 14066&quot;]Here&#039;s the wikipedia entry.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Pente</b> is a strategy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_game" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_game" rel="nofollow">board game</a> for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, a dishwasher at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideaway_Pizza" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideaway_Pizza" rel="nofollow">Hideaway Pizza</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater,_Oklahoma" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater,_Oklahoma" rel="nofollow">Stillwater, Oklahoma</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> Customers played Pente at Hideaway Pizza on checkerboard tablecloths while waiting for their orders to arrive. Thirty years later, patrons are still playing Pente at Hideaway Pizza, although now with roll-up Pente boards.[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="nofollow">citation needed</a></i>] Pente is based on the Japanese game <b>ninuki-renju</b>, a variant of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renju" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renju" rel="nofollow">renju</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku" rel="nofollow">gomoku</a> that is played on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)" rel="nofollow">Go</a> board of 19x19 intersections with white and black stones. Like <i>ninuki-renju,</i> Pente allows captures, but Pente added a new opening rule. In the nineteenth century, <i>gomoku</i> was introduced to Britain where it was known as &quot;Go Bang&quot; (this term is borrowed from Japanese &quot;goban&quot; 碁盤 meaning &quot;go board&quot;).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Pente.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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