Ing Rules
The Ing Rules are the rules as devised by Mr. Ing Chang-Ki and promoted by the Ing Foundation.
Some highlights:
- Area scoring (with proximity scoring)[1]
- Ing counting, filling in the board with 180 stones for each player
- Multiple-stone suicide is allowed
- Komi is 8 in even games; Black wins ties in even games
- Ing Ko Rule applies
- Free handicap stone placement; White wins ties
- Additional timing rules (one variation includes losing points for going over the allotted basic time)(see Ing Timing)
Refer to
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Ing's SST Laws of Wei-Chi, 1996 (Yuan translation)
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in Chinese.
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SST discussion (2006). (SST stands for Stones + Spaces = Territory.)
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Ing's SST Laws of Wei-Chi, 1991 (Davies translation)
See also
mgoetze: Article 9 stipulates: Before the game, the younger player should clean the board with a soft cloth to show respect for the cleanliness of the equipment. - be sure to keep this in mind if you ever enter a tournament under Ing rules, and call the referee on your opponent if he is younger and fails to clean the board.
(Sebastian:) Good that I seem to be much older than you, and I show no tendency of getting younger. :o)
iopq: http://www.goproblems.com/prob.php3?id=3976
check it out it's an Ing Rules problem :)
[1] Bill: Sidney Yuan's translation of the 1996 Ing rules states, "Criteria: The counting criteria in these laws are that stones and spaces are both territory. All living stones and their surrounded spaces are counted as territory points." However, the Chinese says,
准則﹕本規則創「子空皆地、空屬鄰子」為勝負准則﹕凡「活子」及其「屬空」皆為「域〞點」。
which refers to empty points neighboring live stones (空屬鄰子). This indicates that proximity, not surrounding, is the criterion. Yang Yilun appears to concur with this interpretation. See proximity scoring for an example. Also see this go discussions note and
this one.