Life In 19x19

Which would be the most popular go server in the world? Tygem? KGS? Or another one?

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I know that territory and area scoring might differ by one point (if there is only one pass for both players).

My question is whether AGA counting always provides the same result (difference in points between the players) as one of these two ways of counting or not (with the precondition that there ...

Which international go round-robin tournament has the grandest winner's purse? I don't believe in single-elimination tournaments to be fair at all. They don't determine the best player.

On for example Sensei's Libray, if there is a picture of some stones and one is completely black, another one is white with a red circle in it, and then there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 with 1, 3 and 5 being black and the rest white, when were the stones without numbers played?

This example is under ...

Do the players see the board from the same perspective when playing online?

Thanks, Bill! You write "The first bad play. The White corner is solid, so Black does not threaten much. Nor does it extend very far." -- So if a move isn't threatening, it should extend far instead. And vice versa.

Wow! Thanks! I will analyse your analysis. Thank you so much for spending so much time on helping me.

I am a beginner and this is how it would look like if I played against myself. What are your comments on this opening? I know that it seems very symmetrical and it doesn't use to look like this when good players play. Also, white can't go on just imitating black, since it will lead to a defeat ...

Great references to newbie-articles at Sensei's Library. Is there a list of articles that discuss newbie mistakes?

Edit: Found a pretty good one: http://senseis.xmp.net/?Mistake

The reason why I am asking these questions is because I am working on a ruleset of my own. In this ruleset you have to play dead stones out. And I think I realize now that you have to do like this:

black passes - white passes - game over

white passes - black passes - white passes - game over ...

amnal wrote:

AGA rules explicitly don't work like this, replacing it with the players passing until white has passed last and there have been at least two passes.

And that third pass must be DIRECTLY after the two consecutive passes for the game to end, right?

The AGA ruleset states the following:
The Last Move: White must make the last move--if necessary, an additional pass, with a stone passed to the opponent as usual. The total number of stones played and passed by the two players during the entire game must be equal.
My question is: What if white ...

Thanks! BTW, is the difference in komi in Japan and China due to other differences in scoring or counting? Or is it just different?

Is this already an existing ruleset? I use it for amateur playing at home with friends because it is the most simple ruleset I can think of.

First, you take the basic rules from Wikipedia ("concise statement") :
1. The board is empty at the onset of the game (unless players agree to place a ...