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Offline Stefany93
 Post subject: AGA, Chinese and New Zealand rules. What are they?
Post #1 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:04 pm 
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Hello folks,

Will you please send me a link or tell me what are the AGA, Chinese and New Zealand rules? I know the Japanese ones, but I am curios about the others.

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Offline dfan
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Post #2 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:09 pm 
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This is a start:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?AGARules
http://senseis.xmp.net/?ChineseRules
http://senseis.xmp.net/?NewZealandRules

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Offline RobertJasiek
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Post #3 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:17 pm 
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Stefany93 wrote:
I know the Japanese ones


Just to double-check, read here:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/rules.html# ... mmentaries

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Offline oren
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Post #4 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:33 pm 
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For your practical use,
http://www.gokgs.com/help/rulesets.html

I assume you're asking about the KGS options.

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Post #5 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:36 pm 
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In an oversimplified nutshell...

The primary difference between Japanese and Chinese rules are in the scoring methods.

Chinese counts stones + territory
Japanese counts territory - prisoners (its like a short-cut from Chinese scoring)

One of the problems is that scoring the same game using either of these two methods can differ by 1 point, depending on who plays last (and other minor issues)

Other differences between various rulesets, and those usually involve types of ko

New Zealand rules are similar to Chinese rules (maybe closer to Ing rules, which are also similar to Chinese). Ing rules are intended to eliminate rule disputes by being as specific and complete as possible (though perhaps they miss the mark by a little)

AGA rules are designed as a compromise between Japanese and Chinese rules so that players can score the game using either method. Perhpas most players will use the more familiar Japanese counting method and the additional rule of using pass stones is intended to ensure the result will be the same as if counting by the Chinese method.

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Post #6 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:45 pm 
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If you really want to win you should always use area-scoring rules (i.e. anything other than Japanese) and hope that the opponent doesn't notice and forgets to fill dame, giving you free points :twisted:

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Offline Stefany93
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Post #7 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:11 pm 
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Offline Loons
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Post #8 Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:40 am 
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I would prefer this link for New Zealand rules.

http://go.org.nz/index.php?title=Rules_of_the_game

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