Why players don't try to occupy opponent's territory with living group of stones at the end of a game?

[Groin]

The agreement that you don’t have to play inside comes from players of some same level who understand enough the rules, the tactics like life and death and a bit more…

You don’t need that to play and discover the game, you can play inside if you want to.

If you have difficulty to agree or understand the japanese rules which are very commonly used, especially for losing points or not, system of prisoners we put back inside etc… you can play with the chinese rules in mind as an alternative.

The result of the game is like the same with both set of rules anyway but as a beginner you will not worry anymore if you lose points by playing somewhere where someone stronger will tell you not to play.

Basically the victory is decided by who occupy the most the board, altogether (boundaries and empty space inside.) Prisoners have no importance at all.

Chinese counting

Someone asked me a tutorial about how we count a game in Chinese rule. (He’s going to have to IRL.) The very first thing is to understand what we want to do. We are going to count all together, meaning the stones and the emptyness in the middle of the stones. We count only for one color and then we can see if this color occupies more as half of the board, or not. [Screenshot_2021-09-10-18-10-35-36] Here the game is finished. We remove the prisoners to the stock of stones (bowls), prisoner…