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Post #21 Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:22 am 
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hyperpape wrote:
Why do you think any necessitates one? "After the horn has sounded, any persons in the park must leave" sounds fine to me. Do we just have different idiolects?


No, we don't. :) See my remark about "anybody" on the ground floor. Colloquial English is not logical. "Any" and "all" can get mixed up, as can "and" and "or". (I have noted that sometimes this confuses native German speakers, BTW.)

In context, the AGA rule statement is clear enough. But from a logical standpoint it uses "any" where it should use "all".

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Post #22 Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:30 am 
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DrStraw wrote:
No stones may remain on the board after a move is complete unless they have at least one liberty.


This is the approach of the Japanese 1989 rules. :)

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Post #23 Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 12:03 pm 
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I think any is the correct word here and the quoted sentence means exactly what it's supposed to mean. It makes no assumption about the presence of captured enemy stones, it simply allows for the possibility, and I wouldn't even call it a colloquialism.

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