AGA Rules

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The AGA rules are the rules of the American Go Association. They use area scoring and situational superko, count eyes in seki, and forbid suicide. (They are therefore quite similar to Chinese rules.) Pass stones are used so that the score can be counted by methods usually used for territory scoring.

The complete text of the rules can be found here: [ext] http://www.usgo.org/resources/downloads/completerules.pdf

Notice that the 1991 date in the above document is wrong: the rules where changed in August 2004, with komi set to 7.5 rather than 5.5, effective 2005; see point 9 in [ext] http://www.usgo.org/resources/downloads/2004-minutes.pdf

The French rules are essentially the same as AGA rules.


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