Opponent winning by refusing to accept dead stones

Strategy and Tactics
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There are 2 possibilities under japanese rules

  1. Article 9.3

    If a player requests resumption of a stopped game, his opponent must oblige and has the right to play first.

  2. Article 9.2

    After stopping, the game ends through confirmation and agreement by the two players about the life and death of stones and territory. This is called “the end of the game.”

    Article 7 states how to determine which stones are alive

    1. Stones are said to be “alive” if they cannot be captured by the opponent, or if capturing them would enable a new stone to be played that the opponent could not capture. Stones which are not alive are said to be “dead.”
    2. In the confirmation of life and death after the game stops in Article 9, recapturing in the same ko is prohibited. A player whose stone has been captured in a ko may, however, capture in that ko again after passing once for that particular ko capture.

OGS implements 9.3 by giving both players the option to continue the game.
The rules given in 7.2 aren’t easy to interpret as you can see in How to score this game? (Japanese rule discussion)

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