Japanese Rules

Under Japanese rules:

• Scoring is by surrounded territory plus dead or captured stones, called territory scoring (also see Japanese Counting).
• There are no points in a seki.
• Suicide is disallowed.
• Rare repetitive situations like triple ko can cause a game to be voided.
• Resolving disputes about life and death or protective plays depends upon hypothetical play with special ko rules.

Official Rulesets:

• Current official rules for professional play in Japan: Nihon Ki-in 1989 rules
• WAGC 1979 Rules

Japanese Style Rulesets:

• Interpretation: Japanese 2003 Rules (Robert Jasiek, 2004)
• New Amateur-Japanese Rules (Robert Jasiek, 2004)
• Applicable Traditional Japanese Rules (Robert Jasiek, 2008)
• Simplified Japanese Rules (Robert Jasiek, 2008)
• Logical Japanese Rules of Go (Robert Pauli, 2002-2004)
• Ikeda Territory Rules II (Ikeda Toshio, 1968-9, 1991)
• Lasker-Maas rules (Edward Lasker, 1968?, Robert Maas, 1995)
• Spight Japanese style rules

Commentaries:

• Jasiek's Commentary on the Japanese 1989 Rules
• Commentary on the New Amateur-Japanese Rules
• On the rules of Go (Ikeda Toshio, 1968-9, 1991)

See also Chinese rules, Ing rules, Button Go.

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