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Area or territory – The future of go rules

(The historical information in this article is based on The History of Go Rules by Chen Zuyuan.)

As we saw in the first half of this post, go was first played with stone scoring, then with territory scoring, and then also with area scoring. Although territory scoring is nowadays attributed to the Japanese rules, they, similarly to the two …

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Area or territory – A brief history of go rules

(The historical information in this article is based on The History of Go Rules by Chen Zuyuan.)

For a game that has mostly remained unchanged through its history, go has a lot of different rulesets. You may have heard of Japanese rules and Chinese rules, but how about Korean rules, aga rules, New Zealand rules, Tromp–Taylor rules, or Ing rules? …

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