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Seki with eyes question 4
    Keywords: Life & Death, Question, Rules

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No points in a seki

If you play using Japanese counting, as is usual in Europe and Japan, this is a position to watch out for. The Japanese rules say that there are no points counted in a seki, so Black cannot count 3 points for a and the marked white stone. Instead, after the game is over, during or after the filling of the dame, Black should capture at a, and that way get at least one point out of the situation. This is also of importance in the position of the third diagram: The points a and b are not territory points in Japanese counting, but they are in Chinese counting (for example in a game using Ing rules).



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