they would continue to fund tournaments and promote the game. The hope was that Pente would move from being a popular new game to the status of a "true classic." Despite promises to continue to promote Pente as heavily as Gabrel and Pente Games Inc. had, the year after the purchase of Pente, Parker Brothers failed to hold the 1984 Championship tournament. Present Currently, Pente is a registered trademark of Hasbro for strategy game equipment. While Hasbro ceased distribution of Pente in 1993, It later licensed the name to Winning Moves Games USA, a classic games publisher that resurrected the game in 2004. The 2004 version includes 4 extra stones, called power stones, that can be played in the Pente Plus version. Professional Play The now defunct United States Pente Association was formed in 1982 to "...further the communication of Pente Players throughout the world." and "...to assist the growth of Pente enjoyment." It organized in person tournaments, held postal tournaments through the mail, kept an up to date list of player ratings, and released a quarterly newsletter discussing pente news, problems, and games among other things. Pente tournament play is governed in Poland by Polskie Stowarzyszenie Gomoku Renju i Pente (the Polish Association of Gomoku, Renju, and Pente) jointly with Gomoku and Renju. First Player Advantage Pente, much like Gomoku, is known to favor the first player. The Pro Tournament Rule, proposed by Tom Braunlich, was adopted for standard tournament play as an attempt to mitigate this advantage and bring the win ratio at high level play closer to around 50% as is roughly the case in casual play. Analyzing the data of around 750,000 games played online at Pente.org bears this out and shows a bias of about 53% across all games and skill levels. The analysis of the same data showed that when timeouts are excluded and games are filtered out if either player's rating is below 1800 Elo, the first player advantage (FPA) increases from about 53% to ~58%. When the results are filtered to exclude games where the players ratings are below 2000 and then 2200 the FPA increases again to 59% and then 60% respectively. Rollie Tesh, the 1983 world champion, argued in an interview in 1984 that the pro-pente tournament rule was not an effective solution and suggested either adopting mitigation rules from professional Renju tournaments, such as move restrictions on the first