Re: What do various \rulesets say about the score of the seki?

"Chris Dams" <C.Dams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dear Thaddeus,
>
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 00:31 +0000, TLOlczyk wrote:
>
> > Looking over this game, I was wondering how the seki
> > in the UHR corner is scored. Especially T18,T19.
>
> The most interesting (read: overly complicated) rule set is Japanese
> rules. In this case no points are counted in a seki. White has made an
> error by not capturing the stone at T18, because this would have given
> him one point for a captured stone. After two passes this stone is not
> to be removed from the seki. Only stones inside territory of the
> opponent are to be removed.

But since White may simply request resumption of the game and capture the
stone anyway, there seems little point in trying to deny White the prisoner,
e.g. if she claims it as a dead stone...

>
> If using an area scoring rule set with counting point in a seki it is
> okay to remove the stone at T18 and to count all surrounded points for B
> and W. This is because in such a rule set no harm is done by simply
> continuing playing and in that case the stone at T18 could simply be
> captured.
>
> Best wishes,
> Chris
>


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