SoDesuNe wrote:
OGS automatic scoring handles this pretty fine in accordance to, I guess, "Verbal-European Japanese Rules".
No. OGS, as I understand it, uses AI. This means that any partial coincidence with a particular ruleset is accidental.
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I was in the organising committee of mulitple OTB tournaments over the last years and "Japanese Rules" was the only thing we announced.
Taking pride in your systematic mistake. Apart from that,...
such real world tournaments have an implicit context of some verbal Japanese ruleset (not necessarily European because not all tournaments are in Europe and some European countries had a slightly different verbal rules context before the European-Verbal Japanese Rules appeared). Such verbal Japanese rules are reasonable for practical application.
Refuting to declare them and instead insisting on a reference to all Japanese style rulesets is unreasonable, as is OGS by doing so.
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People were fine then, people will be fine now.
1) Many people do not know the details of Japanese rulesets. Instead, they make a subconscious, implicit assumption of some sort of verbal Japanese rules being used. This has the practical consequence of them being reasonable for practical application. So people are more reasonable WRT to rules than OGS and you.
2) In casual server games, it does not matter much if one loses once every few hundred games due to seki or ko ambiguity in the rules. (And more frequently by not noticing the consequences of forgotten teire mishandled by servers.) In tournaments, however, each game matters. Also the occasional game with seki or ko arcana matters. For this, it is insufficient to pretend people would be being fine. Serious players will notice such things when they occur and in tournaments will take action, i.e., they will then not conform to your lazy dream of "everything is just fine". For these cases, it is your responsibilty to decide the outcome of such games before the start of the tournament so that each player will get his fair result, instead of making an arbitrary decision after the incident occurs. The purpose of a tournament is a competition of skill of the players - not the tournament director replacing their skill by his arbitrary arbitration.
By declaring "verbal Japanese rules" before the tournament start, you meet practice, enable yourself to judge competently and (for Japanese style rules) minimise the frequency with which you have to judge at all.