Re: [computer-go] Super Ko on KGS ignores player to move

[john tromp <John.Tromp@xxxxxx>]

The Chinese rules are quite clear but suffer from the freedom
that they provide referees in deviating from the rules.

> Interesting. So you are saying that sites such as
> http://www.britgo.org/rules/compare.html have it wrong? Or that the
They have it wrong in that they describe something the referee may do,
rather then what the rules prescribe.

> examples in Chapter 3, Section 20 at
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/go/rules/Chinese.html have been removed
> from the official rules? Could you point us to a more authoritative
> and up-to-date source?
This is apparently all we have to go in in the English language.
Btw, Section 3 is titled "Rules for the Referee". In the absence
of a referee, it would seem sensible to just follow the General Rules
of chapter 1.
> IMO chapter 1 one section 6 alone is described too informal to draw
> any strong conclusions without taking the full text, including
> examples and commentaries into account. (For example, it is not even
Section 6 reads:
Reappearance of the same board position is forbidden throughout the  
game.

It takes a stretch of imagination to consider this unclear.

regards,
-John
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