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, *stay away*, if you look for entertainment only. Check it out, if you look for a challenge!

THE X-O GAME ARENA

WHAT IS AN X-O GAME? The X-O game, also called "Five in a Row", is a strategic game which doesn't need any equipment, except a squared sheet of paper and pencil. Players alternate placing their signs ("X" or "O") into the squares. The winner, is the first one with five signs in a row - horizontal, vertical or diagonal (both positive and negative slopes).
WHY AN "ARENA" FOR THE X-O GAME? With evolving computer technology, computer programs prove themselves good opponents in many strategic games. The last human vs. computer chess championship (1999) indicates that it would make sense to equip the human with database access and computing power to equalize the chances of the opponents. The era of humans playing strategic games against each other comes slowly, but inevitably, to an end. Now begins an era of competition, where the opponents are programmers battling vicariously through their programs for the win.
WHAT IS THE X-O GAME ARENA FOR? It provides not only the appropriate environment for competing Java Script X-O implementations, but also allows a human to play against available Java Scripts or another human opponent. Listing all moves of a finished game, undoing moves, showing scores of the human opponent against a script and automated ten games battle of scripts, provides the tools an ambitioned X-O player and Java Script programmer can use to improve his skills.

Please decide how to proceed, or download (zipped: 174 KByte) the whole site for offline viewing:

Run MSIE version of the X-O ARENA (various features, sound, but no animation)
Run all browser X-O ARENA version (animated, but less features, by A. Kourbatov)
Read about the Java Script interface specification (for programmer only)
Check out the Hall of Fame (ranking currently available Java Scripts)