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@hexahedron

So in this case, it turns out that Chinese players generally use a simple ko rule, despite the written rules. You can see this because triple ko comes up every few years in league games or other matches or events, and it’s ruled as voiding the game (“no result”). Nobody tries to fight out the triple ko for real under superko.

You can find another provision that allows tournaments and competitions to use “alternate” rules - so you could say that technically the Chinese rules do use positional superko, it’s just that every tournament and every league universally overrides to “alternate” rules of simple ko. But that’s kind of the point - the written rules aren’t the real rules that everyone uses.

How do people keep track of ko and superko in tournaments?

I would like to revisit a question that came up in this thread: I understand pro players have practiced memorization and they keep game logs and stuff, but since ko/superko refers to not repeating the board that occurred at any point of the game, how do they keep track? What if they find out later? Is there any record on this? It’s rare and not very probable, as I understand it, but still, the question is killing me.

Where were you @hexahedron when I needed you?

(kidding plz don’t revive that thread)