luigi wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
luigi wrote:
Well, my idea was to make the button neither a pass nor a play.
How so? What difference would that make? How would it work?
That's what I mean by the button not being a play: it's not taken into account by positional superko, whose concern is the board position, i.e. plays. But, of course, it's still not a pass: passing after the opponent takes the button doesn't end the game.
Perhaps one way of implementing that as a variant of AGA rules without a physical button is this way:
- 1) use territory counting;
2) play stops after two consecutive passes after the first pass;
3) the player making the first pass does not hand over a pass stone;
4) if the opponent of the player who made the first pass makes the last pass, she does not hand over a pass stone for that pass, either;
5) use 6.5 komi (presently).
With no physical button, just treat the first pass as the button.
