phillip1882 wrote:so, this is a very nit picky point but one worth stating imho.
AGA is my personal favorite ruleset. it uses japanese scoring (a big plus for me.) makes points in seki count (another huge one.) while balancing the komi with the pass stone rule. (since game can't end on white turn, this makes the komi of 7.5 somewhat more managable for black.) so what's my nit pick? i'll demonstrate.
imagine you come to the end on the game and then white plays an ignorable move.
black sees that this move can be ignores and so passes.
then white passes.
then that would be the game, and white would lose a point.
but now lets take the same senario and see what happens when black does the same.
now white passes, black passes, and because of the move rule, white must pass again to end the game. thus black doesn't really lose a point.
this seems slightly unfair to me. black can invade with impunity but white cannot?
The problem, Phillip, is with your first diagram. Its not White's turn. Each player has played 11 moves (and assuming no captures), its now black's turn. So if black passes first (handing over a stone), then white plays
, white gains the point otherwise "lost" from black's pass stone.
