vier wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
Why don't you post the game record?
I know about several versions, all incomplete. Logan (Go_Seigen_1d.pdf, p. 938) does not give the result.
The nonintegral RE looks like a mistake. Maybe the GC is mistaken as well?
If this is from a book about rules and counting I would not expect a semi-finished game.
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PB[Ikeda Toshio]
PW[Go Seigen]
KM[-4]
RE[W+11.5]
DT[Published 1992]
RU[Ikeda's Area Rules III]
GC[After the first pass, end on two successive passes.
In even games, if first pass is by W, subtract 0.5 point from B and give to W.
For 3 handicap stones, subtract 1.5 points and for last move add 0.5,
and add 2 points for 4 points komi (W thus needs at least 181.5 not to lose).]
SO[Ikeda's book on rules]
HA[3]
AB[dp][pd][pp]
;W[cd];B[ec];W[hc];B[cg];W[ed];B[dd];W[de];B[dc];W[be];B[fd] ...)
Thanks for posting the SGF file.

I found the same game record in GoGOD, BTW.
There is a clue to the final fractional result in the Game Comment.
Quote:
add 2 points for 4 points komi (W thus needs at least 181.5 not to lose).
The comment neglects to add that for 4 points komi Black would subtract 2 points, while White would add 2 points. Why not just add 4 points to White's score? The answer, I think, is that the game was scored in the Chinese fashion instead of the Japanese fashion. If White needed 181.5 points for jigo, but had 193 points, then that would explain the 11.5 point win.
