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| Tanbo
The tanbo is game a created by Mark Steere. Rules - The Tanbo requires a go board with size 19 * 19
- Initally each player has 8 stones on the board:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | | 1 | X | . | . | . | . | . | O | . | . | . | . | . | X | . | . | . | . | . | O | | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 7 | O | . | . | . | . | , | X | . | . | . | . | . | O | . | . | . | . | . | X | | 8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 10 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 11 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 12 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 13 | X | . | . | . | . | . | O | . | . | . | . | . | X | . | . | . | . | . | O | | 14 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 15 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 16 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 17 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 18 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | | 19 | O | . | . | . | . | , | X | . | . | . | . | . | O | . | . | . | . | . | X | - Black makes the first move
- With each move the player add one stone to the board.
- A newly added stone must "connected" to exactly one stone of the same color. Two points "connected" if they are horizontally or vertically adjacent. Diagonally adjacent points do not connected.
- Player are not allowed to pass
- By adding stones the players form "roots": group of interconnected stones of the same color.
- When a player makes a move he connects new stone to only one of his rotot. This root increases in size by obe abd is referred as the "expanded root"
- The root becomes "bounded" when a move is made complerely deprives that root space to grow.
- When a player make a move which expands and bounds one of the player's roots, the player must immediatly remove this root from the board.
- When a player make a move which expands and bounds one of the player's roots and simultaneously bounds one or more additional roots , the player must immediatly remove the expanded root from the board.
- When a player bounds one of the player's roots but not expended root the player must immediatly remove all bounded roots from the board
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