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Taking Away The Stones
When clearing away the stones and putting them back to the bowls, it is a good habit to only clean up stones of your own colour. You can slide the opponent's stones aside on the board. I read somewhere that this habit is followed to avoid the hands of both players colliding when they simultaneously put away stones to the same bowl. I have never bothered in my (Western) amateur tournament or club games, and I know of nobody who ever felt offended in this way. And I don't know how strictly this one is followed in the Orient. --Stefan Another explanation that I have heared for this rule, is that by taking your opponent's stones off the board, you appear to be capturing them. But I agree that it is not a rule that I normally think about. -- AndreEngels Still, this habit (I don't know if this is a "rule") is very strictly followed by "Oriental" players: none of the many I've played in my life has ever put away "my" stones... In our Weiqi Association, we don't care about this!!! :-) --unkx80 Scartol: Online, I always remove my own stones at the end of play. It just seems rude to snatch up the stones of one's opponent. Even if they are dead, it feels like a way of adding insult to injury. I like being able to be the pallbearer for my own stones. Yes, they're dead, but at least I got to bury them. Stefan: You refer to dead stones at the end of the game, right? This is strange, since this reverses the normal procedure followed during the game. And don't feel sorry for dead stones, Scartol. The more there are, the better! Sacrifice!! Sacrifice!!!! :-) This is a copy of the living page "Taking Away The Stones" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |