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Illegal Move
An illegal move is a move which violates the rules of go. Typical illegal moves are
Andrew Grant: Recently (on 2nd Oct. 2003) Cho Hunhyeon played an illegal move in a major tournament game and had to forfeit the game.
It's easy to make this kind of blunder if a ko is involved. Most likely Cho's mind was preoccupied with counting and evaluating ko threats, and he failed to pay due attention to the trivial task of taking the ko. Something similar happened a few years ago in (I think) the Meijin tournament in Japan, where Cho Chikun took a ko without making a threat. But on that occasion the game was annulled rather than forfeited, since Cho had asked the referee if it was his turn to take the ko and the referee had answered wrongly.
(Sebastian:) Poor guy. I think that Go is too hard-hearted. (Ensuing discussion moved to hard-heartedness)
uxs: Black playing at a instead of at This is a copy of the living page "Illegal Move" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |