Life In 19x19

Regarding Bill's post 4564, ah of course I could kick myself I didn't see that. A tactic of fill them in, make them take, and repeat, to keep reducing their territory until I can take them.


Pio2001: I felt that there must be something making those after end game territories independent. Glad to ...

Looking back to page 2 again (and the issue in my OP), and quoting Kirby :

This thread has a lot of interesting discussion, but in my opinion, it has become more complicated than it needs to be*.

Let's go back to your original example:
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3) It still seems a little fishy.

You don't know the half of it! ;)

As you see. :grumpy:


Well it is fascinating too Bill (and everyone). I was concerned I was making a meal of rule ambiguity and so on. But I'm not worried now!

The theoretical angle of the status of the rules is interesting ...

“he may not be back” & similar … I'm back.

I admit to frustration with the game over this issue though. This otherwise excellent introduction http://www.playgo.to/iwtg/en/count.html where I got my example from, says “Thus black will not make such moves.” But there is no “thus” because they do the ...

No I do not have the stamina to reconstruct the post that the forum lost. In any case I see the thread has moved on.

Let me start again. I think this issue is due to my misunderstanding of the rules. I thought that in my example in the orginal post that blacks territory was not actually blacks ...

Argghhhh. I have lost my carefuly thought out post because the forum timed out and logged me out with no warning before I'd finished. Time and brain power lost! Very annoyed at the forum at the moment!

In thanks to the two players who replied to my post I will write it again, but I've gone off ...

I hope someone can tell me where I'm going wrong. This issue is still a mystery to me after reading numerous descriptions of territory scoring.

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Everything I've read says that ...