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OTOH, if they disagree on the status of the groups then they should continue playing.

This is wrong for Japanese rules. There are situations under Japanese rules, where stones are indeed dead, but continuing play to capture them would result in a wildly inferior result.

Here is an example:

Odd Cases in the Japanese Rules

Never Mind the Ko, Here’s the Dead Group In another thread, @le_4TC threw down the proverbial, pedantic gauntlet… Chinese Rules Analysis In order to appreciate and understand how peculiar this position is under the Japanese rules, we should first analyze and make sense of it under the Chinese (or similar area-scoring) rules, where complicated life-and-death is settled by the principal of “playing it out” (which is not what is done under Japanese rules, of course). [0root] Let’s first exam…