Chinese Rules

    Keywords: Rules

Chinese rules for Go are defined by the Chinese Weiqi Association, mainland China:

In Chinese rules:

The official Chinese rules make no mention of handicaps. Some interpretations of Chinese rules, such as the implementation on KGS, allow free placement of handicap stones.


SAS: Can someone please explain the bit about voiding games with complex ko? Section 6 of the Chinese rules clearly states that repetition of position is not allowed. Therefore the part of Section 20 which states that the referee may declare a draw or a replay if neither side will yield in a triple ko (or quadruple ko, etc.) is irrelevant - the no-repetition rule ensures that one side or the other must yield.

SAS: Having looked at this a bit more, it seems that there is a difference between the rules as they are written and as they are actually applied. I've modified the above to take account of this.

RobertJasiek: The positional superko is pretence and the referees' ko rules are applied in practice. The latter can be explained by a moderately complex modification of the [ext] Japanese 2003 Rules.


Variant:


[1] There is no rule precluding eyes in seki from counting as territory. Such a rule is a feature of other rulesets, such as the Japanese and Korean rules.


This is a copy of the living page "Chinese Rules" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2012 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About