The biggest difference in over the board club play is the scoring procedure. in territory scoring, prisoners are kept separate, and at the end of the game prisoners are put back in enemy territory and regions are rearranged to rectangles and counter. Counting is pretty fast, and the board position is partially preserved. In Chinese scoring, prisoners are put back in the bowls with stones to be played, and at the end of the game one color only is counted, first territory, then the stones are collected into piles of 10 and counted. The position is completely destroyed in the process. So though Chinese rules avoid the special cases in Japanese rules, counting mistakes are easier to make. In AGA rules, counting is done using the territory procedure, but the score is the same as the Chinese procedure since anyone who passes gives a prisoner to the opponent. In Ing rules, each player starts with 180 stones exactly. During play prisoners are put back in the bowls, then at the end all 181 stones are put on the board into the territory. The person with territory left over wins. So there is not much difference in the moves chosen, but the scoring procedure is radically different. If the players don't agree on the rules and one saves prisoner and the other doesn't it will be difficult to count the score. I think this group has a tendency to think mostly about computer scoring, and not how games are scored on a wooden go board in a club :) David
I'm curious... How does the rule sets affect how people play the game of go? I personally find territory scoring more interesting. 90% of my reason for that is because the game ends sooner... I don't have to go filling dame (open spaces between chains of opposing colors).
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