Question About Chinese Seki

[yebellz]

I’m glad to have been able to contribute.

By the way, the status of sekis can get quite interesting under Chinese rules, since whole board strategic considerations can affect life and death considerations. I wrote post here about an interesting case here:

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…