Gomoku
Gomoku, also called "Five in a Row", is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a Go board, using 15×15 of the 19×19 grid intersections. Because pieces are not moved or removed from the board, Gomoku may also be played as a paper-and-pencil game. The game is known in several countries under different names.
Go (game)
Other, less expensive woods often used to make quality table boards in both Chinese and Japanese dimensions include Hiba ("Thujopsis dolabrata"), Katsura ("Cercidiphyllum japonicum"), Kauri ("Agathis"), and Shin Kaya (various varieties of spruce, commonly from Alaska, Siberia and China's Yunnan Province). So-called "Shin Kaya" is a potentially confusing merchant's term: "shin" means "new", and thus "shin kaya" is best translated "faux kaya", because the woods so described are biologically unrelated to Kaya.