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Jigo
Keywords: Go term
'Jigo' is the Go term for draw, that is, a result where both players have the same number of points. In most tournaments, the komi is such that jigo is rare or impossible.
'JiGo' is also the name of a suite of Go-tools being developed at unkx80: One of the most common form of Jigo is for a Triple Ko to occur. Another possibility for Jigo is Eternal Life. This is provided that you are not using SuperKo rule. It is a little tricky in the way the words are carried over into English (and other western languages) from Japanese. In Japanese 'Jigo' means exactly the situation where both players have the same number of points. The game result is 'hikiwake', meaning a draw. The result of triple ko and other special repeating positions where the neither side will give up the repetition is 'mushoubu', meaning no result. In professional games Jigo results in a true draw and is counted in the results, for example, of the ten-game matches (Jubango) that Go Seigen played against all his top rivals in the 1940's and 1950's. On the other hand, mushoubu requires a replay of the game. In the 1981 Meijin tournament between Cho Chikun and Otake Hideo there was a mushoubu. If the series had gone the distance, the players would have ended up playing eight games to finish a seven-game match. -- DaveSigaty This is a copy of the living page "Jigo" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |