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End game deciding on dead stones
As TimK pointed out, the situation could be but may not be a Seki but without a diagram to show to us, it's not easy for us to guess what happened.
Seki : no one die, everyone live
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Counting a surrounded non-alive carpenter's square
During the game
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$$ | a b O X O .
$$ | X O O X O .
$$ | . X , X O .
$$ | X X X X O .
$$ | O O O O O .
$$ | . . . . . .
The corner is not settled yet, as both players can choose to:...
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How would this seki be scored at the end of the game?
Both the black and white stones are alive, so no points are scored for either side here.
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Why are the white stones in the bottom left of this game counted as points for black?
It is possible depending on previous turns that some variants of the Superko rule would allow black to win that fight. For example, if black played A3, white might not be allowed to capture at A5 if ...
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How to evaluate this board situation under Japanese or European rules
I will only discuss the Japanese pro rules, since as far as I know there are no official European rules. The tournament of the European Go Congress 2015, for example, was played with AGA rules. I ...
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End game deciding on dead stones
This situation is called Seki. Scoring depends on the ruleset you're using.
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