jumapari wrote:
Thanks for the hints, especially with regard to the pointless moves. I'll take a close look at it, and try to learn. The rules, however, I think I have already understood, but there are just two problems:
1. because of Corona, for example, I can visit no go club and cannot play face to face with people. I know the rules only since 3 weeks, so I have never played against an experienced person, and
2. If the areas in which the stones are trapped are larger and not as defined as in your example, then I am still not clear whether they are always trapped due to uncertainty.
Your question is a reasonable one, and one that has been asked several times here, and answered. Sorry, I don't know exactly where these discussions are or exactly what to search for. The rule is that dead stones are removed from the board at the end of the game without having to capture them. The question then arises, what stones are dead? This is surprisingly difficult to answer. The latest version of the Japanese professional rules gives a definition that is, at best, ambiguous. But in practice, the problem has arisen with good play only a few times in the long history of go.
Fortunately for you, there is a practical way to answer the question. Play the game out until all dead stones have been captured, or you both agree that they are dead. But, instead of using Japanese style rules, use area scoring, which counts both stones and territory on the board. The difference in the final score is rarely more than one point, and it is easy to switch between the two rules. There is even a way, thanks to yours truly and others, to play by area scoring but count the score at the end a la territory scoring.
This is part of the rules of the American Go Association (AGA), at
https://www.usgo.org ,