Welcome to the 6th forum game of Parallel Fractional Go!
Team Black
Team White
Live Game: Go Variants
Setup Thread: [Setup] Parallel Fractional Go 6
Have a nice game everybody!
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Enjoy the game everyone! Blackpink will start in the upper left.
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Time to lern the rules again 
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I went through the old threads to figure out the rules. So:
White and black are the teams. Each team strives to end up with the most territory
Question: Do captures also count towards the team points?
The colorful colors are what counts for capture / liberties.
Question: Do white and black also count towards captures / liberties?
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This time I need to avoid wearing blue light lenses while playing to see the colors correctly
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Dont wanna spread wrong information, but Im kinda sure its purely about the territory and captures do not count.
White and black stones can also be captured if surrounded, if that answers your question. I may not understand it correctly.
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I’m not sure if I understand my question either, but what happens if:
- a white-blue stone is surrounded by 3 black-red stones, and one black-blue
- a white-blue stone is surrounded by 3 black-red stones, and one white-red
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We use area scoring (as in chinese rules), that’s why captures don’t count as points directly.
The white chain (consisting of just the one white-blue stone) has no liberties and is therefore captured.
The blue chain (consisting of the one white-blue stone) has no liberties and is captured.
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Reminder @Sadaharu
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Sorry just played.
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Reminder @PRHG
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That seems like a relatively early first capture of the game.
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@Sadaharu, let me know if you want me to play somewhere specifically.
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I have no idea what’s going on
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@Sadaharu don’t forget to take off your blue filtering glasses 
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I don’t know on which level you are confused, so I’ll start with the basics and go from there.
Looking at the stone we just created: Its black chain has two liberties and is just the one stone, its blue chain has also two liberties and is just the one stone. Its pink chain looks like an L and has eight liberties.
So blue and black are in a temporal shortage of liberties, but black can connect to my stone, creating a triangle chain. If I do that though, I’ll take one of the two liberties of blue. If you do it, you’ll create a blue chain with two stones and three liberties which can maybe hope to reach the white-blue stones in the lower center (or your corner stones) at some point.
In case you want to connect to your corner stones underneath, I should create the black triangle. That’s why I’m offering you to decide where I should play. It was my way of trying to tell you that I won’t take your liberty (by creating that black triangle) unless you tell me to.
My first stone was outnumbered and all the other black stones were on the opposite side of the board, so I decided to go to the center without anticipating @Tschej would come to help me.
Then both you and me went for the wedge (which was a bit inefficient) and now we have the chance to prevent that white-pink stone from connecting back.
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This is really fun and interesting, kudos to you Martin for organizing and inventing (?) this game. It reminds me of Diplomacy which I used to enjoy all-night sessions of, back in the day. It is rare to find a multiplayer board game that doesn’t require dice or cards or the like. Of course it’s also intriguing to explore how it follows and doesn’t follow the parameters of play in regular Go.
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