In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew
Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Don Dailey wrote:
Ok, let's get into semantics. Is superko an illegal move? Is it
simply forbidden or is it part of the rules that you lose immediately if
you play it? In card games that is called an irregularity and there
are separate rules to deal with these.
If you make some other illegal move what happens? For instance if you
take one the opponents stones and place it on the board? Do you lose
immediately or do you get your hand slapped with the objection that "you
can't make that move, play something real!"
In serious tournament go the convention is that you lose immediately.
(I haven't heard of a case of someone playing a stone of the wrong colour in
such a tournament, but certainly playing a move forbidden by the ko rule
forfeits the game).
It may depend what you mean by "serious tournament".
In one of the British Championship Match games, a bit over ten years
ago, Zhang Shutai made an illegal ko move against Matthew Macfadyen, and
immediately conceded that he had lost the game.
In the "Candidates' Tournament", a preliminary round for the British
Championship, last year. I observed a player play a stone of the wrong
colour. The players had no doubt about the correct action: the stone
was removed from the board and replaced by one of the correct colour.
Nick
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