Southperry Omok tournament!

2 things:

-Can't we have one of our knowledgeable programmers on the site make a simple program so the matches don't need to go through MapleStory? Though I guess setting up so the program can actually communicate through the internet would be a bit harder =P

I'd gladly accept that but I'm not sure if maples rules are custom or actually official.

-Wasn't the Omok game mathematically solved for all starting positions? i.e. there's a clearly superior strategy that guarantees winning.

Checkers was, not Gomoku, which is omok from what I know at least. I've never experienced someone always winnning with the same strat.

It's actually pretty easy to do an ajax one. Except I don't know the rules of Omok, at all.
I barely remember it being a grid of varying sizes and a time limit, which would potentially have to be ignored or at least extended to play via web.

It can be any length of board, typically it's 15x15 on maplestory I think. I'd have to see the board but I'm pretty sure it is. From people who play gomoku it's like a 25x25 board I think. The only rule (which I'm not sure is gomoku, or omok specific) is double 3. So you can't make a move that creates two 3's simaltaneously. Such as:

If I put the piece in the middle I automatically win, because you can't block two 3's at once. But it isn't limited too consecutive pieces, so moves like;

Where the x is where you cannot place it. Even though theres a space between them, because it creates two 3's it cannot be placed. If there was a spot to the right of the x you could put it there.

 Squares are moves that are prohibitted because of the set up

Also putting more than 5 in a row does not result in a win, so if you put 6 in a row, it doesn't count as a win.

EDIT: Ugh let me draw it on paint or something. Sec