Differences between Japanese and Chinese scoring

[yebellz]

@yebellz

If there are unremoveable ko threats, then whether or not one should try to capture the bent-four-in-the-corner will depend on strategic considerations.

As a follow-up to this point, I made another forum post going through a life and death example under Chinese rules:

Life and Death under Chinese Rules

Consider the following board position under Chinese rules with a 5.5 point komi [game1] Which stones are alive or dead? Who will win this game and by how much? What is the best line of play? The purpose of this example is to explore how life and death is handled under Chinese rules. Pause here to consider the above questions if you wish to treat this example as a problem, before reading on into the rest of the discussion. Discussion Note that white’s group in the top-left forms a “bent fo…