Life In 19x19

Maybe this, I am not sure:
Simultanous Capture rule.
Scoring is stone scoring.
4 consecutive passes to end the game.
Toroidal board.

Problably Stone Scoring.

2. Play stone. Remove any opposing stones without liberties. Remove any of your own stones without liberties. ( NewZealandRules )
3. Play stone. Remove any opposing stones without liberties. ( DelayedSuicide )
4. Play stone. Remove any stones without liberties ( SimultaneousCapture )

The New ...

How much would go change if diagonal stones were considered adjacent?

-Scoring works in a different way. You count the number of your stones on the board ONLY and also the numbers of stones you have captured.
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-You dont remove the dead stones at the end of the game.


what? these two rules don't make much sence. if stones on the board count in my favor, and none ...

it seems like a two games match, only played parallelly instead of consecutively
yes the two games match was to make a equal game with both players starting at the same time.
The idea of playing parallelly instead of consecutively, is that when you play consecutively both games are not equal ...

Kind of interesting, but also kind of... not?

Anyway, I'm assuming this is to negate the need for komi in an even game?

The 2 games in one idea was made to that, so the game has no komi rules.


How would handicaps be allowed in the case of disparate strengths?

It would work like on normal ...

A Gotwo game work like this:
The players play 2 Go games and at the same time.
On the first board black start first.
On the second board white start first.
Both players decide where they will put their stones (or if they will pass) at the same time. So, the 2 boards moves happens in the same time ...

Li Kao wrote: this means prisoners are counted twice compared to conventional scoring.

Yes thats right, WHEN COMPARED WITH CONVENTIONAL SCORING, prisoners are counted twice.
But this doenst that in my variation that you get 2X points to every prisoner you have + one point to each stone you have on the board.

with prisoners counting double (once for not adding them to the player's score, once for adding them to the opponent's score)
if i got this right and it is your intention, you could formulate it in a more clear way
Prisioners doenst counts double. It just counts points when you capture from a ...

This variation is the chinese version with those changes:

-Simultaneous capture is possible. When you do a simultaneous capture, your stones are captured by the enemy and their stones are captured by you.

-The game need 4 consecutive passes to end the game.
IDEA:Fix the situation when you want to ...