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Go ending. Why do players stop? [duplicate]
I'm learning the game GO. I see that after the players have made a lot of moves, at the end of the game, there are several visible territories for black and for white. But I don't understand, why does ...
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Should black pass in this situation?
Suppose a game of go ends up in the follow position, with black to play. (Assume everything is settled apart from the situation in the centre of the board.)
As black it seems like there's no ...
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Go end game scoring question
I'm trying to learn Go and I'm very confused by how end of game scoring works. I've played a game against an AI player, and I don't understand the scoring that the computer came up with once the game ...
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Alive strings inside a string?
$$ ------------------
$$ | O . O X . . . .
$$ | . O O X . . . .
$$ | O O O X . . . .
$$ | X X X X . . . .
$$ | . . . X . . . .
$$ | . . . X . . . .
$$ | X X X X . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . .
How is ...
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Does the Cosumi Go site sometimes get the score wrong?
Cosumi claims that I won this game by 37 points:
— [9×9, Level 0] Black(You) Wins by 37 Points - Go Browser Game COSUMI
But it looks even to me.
Am I missing something, or does the site sometimes get ...
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Go - How does one count territory in these scenarios?
I'm learning to play Go (Japanese rule) however I'm still confuse how to count territory in some cases. Which side each territory belongs to?
Scenario 1
$$W Scenario1
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$$ | . ....
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How would this seki be scored at the end of the game?
I'm a Go beginner with a VERY little bit of experience (three or four actual games under my belt), and I'm looking through the life and death problems at Sensei's Library trying to get a better ...
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Counting a surrounded non-alive carpenter's square
I was playing against Crazy Stone and we ended up with (essentially) this corner situation:
$$W
$$ -------------
$$ | . . 5 X O .
$$ | 4 1 3 X O .
$$ | . 2 , X O .
$$ | X X X X O .
$$ | O O O O O .
$$...
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End game deciding on dead stones
In a game of Go, we were in a strange position. If my opponent moved at one point to put my pieces in atari, his pieces would get taken. If I moved at that same point my pieces would’ve been taken.
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Go - How does one count territory in these two scenarios? (9x9)
I'm learning to play Go and I was trying to develop a game in java, but I'm still not sure how to count territory in some cases.
In the scenario below, which side belongs to White, Top or Bottom?
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