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Spight Rules
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I have proposed these two rules which address the questions of endless repetition and stopping play at the end of the game.

  A board play may not repeat a previous whole board position
  unless a pass has intervened since its last occurrence.
  Play stops when the same player passes a second time in the
  same board position.

With area scoring play ends when play stops. With territory scoring play stops twice. After the first stop there is an encore in which a pass costs one point and each player makes the same number of plays (considering a pass a play). Also, passes before the encore do not count for stopping play in the encore. After the second stop play ends if each player has made the same number of plays. If not, the second player in the encore makes an obligatory pass and play ends.

{Explanatory discussion to follow.}

-- Bill Spight




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