This is meaningless unless you define what you mean by a tie (which also may not be what other people mean), but if you are maintaining that all Chinese pro tournaments handled triple ko in the same way, that is plain wrong. In the weekly Weiqi League Division A replays are normal, but in the B Division, which takes place as a single time-crowded event, triple ko has been counted as a half-point draw.



Yes. Gu Li lost a game because of the special superko rule in an Ing-rules tournament, with a triple ko.

Thanks oren and John for establishing that Baolong's statement has been wrong. "tie" refers to the list of referee options in §20.3: "Depending on the type of the tournament, it is possible to make alternative rules, for example: no result, tie or additional competition." In this context, the meaning of "tie" is sufficiently clear and is different from "no result" and "additional competition".