On 31-dec-06, at 15:34, David Fotland wrote:
A strong chinese player using chinese rules will pick up a point or
two
during the dame filling stage when playing a strong japanese
player. The
Chiense player will choose earlier moves that gain a later dame
point that
the japanese player will think have no benefit over other moves.
I'm rather late to the discussion, having been on vacation, but the
above seems strange. Choosing a move that will gain a later dame
point is equivalent to making a point. Therefore by definition the
move the chinese player made was not a dame point.
As long as both players fill in dame, the Chinese player will never
gain a point. The only case where I've seen strong Chinese players
gain a point very late in the game against other strong players is by
winning the last half-point ko but instead of filling it he fills
another dame-point. Provided he has many more ko-threats so he can
wait filling the ko until all dame are filled he gains either zero or
two points (depending on whether the number of remaining dame was
even or uneven.).
Mark
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