Annihilist wrote:This system seems unnecessary. What's wrong with the current system?
Which system are you referring to?
simple counting
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Re: simple counting
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Re: simple counting
Whichever one we use. Territory or Area scoring. It doesn't matter. Neither need improvement I don't think.RobertJasiek wrote:Annihilist wrote:This system seems unnecessary. What's wrong with the current system?
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Re: simple counting
Annihilist wrote:Territory or Area scoring. [...] Neither need improvement
Area scoring:
It does not need improvement, but rules that mention life and death can be improved by not mentioning life and death.
Territory scoring:
It depends on which form of territory scoring is meant; usually the referred to form is life-and-death-territory-scoring in the Japanese / Korean style. Extremely great improvements are possible for every particular ruleset of that style. E.g., the various exceptions apparent from
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/wagcflaw.html
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/j1989c.html
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/difference_ ... rules.html
could be cut down to a reasonably small amount in
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/sj.html
Note that the remaining exceptions are major ones. In particular, there are different rules for the alternation and the analysis at all.