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- From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: FWD: GO RULES FOR BEGINNERS (rec.games.go)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.090932.46768@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:09:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: kuhub.1993Jan26.090932.46768
- References: <9301221630.AB00981@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <9301221630.AB00981@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>,
- osman@hannah.enet.dec.com writes:
- > For example, imagine a hypothetical game where lots of the board is
- > filled with live black *stones* but white has more territory and less
- > stones. White wins, even though black has occupied more of the board
- > with his groups.
-
- No, black wins (unless he moved last, and the difference is 1 point).
- Barring seki and handicaps, japanese and chinese scoring can never
- differ by more than one point.
-
- If the board is filled with live black stones, but white has more
- territory and fewer stones, then black must have captured a bunch of
- prisoners. Keep in mind the fact that the players alternate, and must
- have played the same number of stones (within one stone if black moves
- last). For example, suppose the (9X9) board looks like:
-
- X X X X X X X X X
- X X X . X X . X X
- X X X X X X X X X
- X X X X X X X X X
- X X X X X X X X X
- O O O O O O O O O
- O . . . . . . . O
- O . . . . . . . O
- O . . . . . . . O
-
- Black has two points of territory and white has 21, but black has
- played 43 stones, so white must have played at least 42 stones. Since
- only 15 of them are left on the board, the rest must have been
- captured, giving black an additional 27 points. Black wins. You might
- be able to construct artificial games where white passes and black
- playes inside his/her own territory but in real games, if you occupy
- more of the board than your opponent, then you win.
- --
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