I would also like to add the following:
The real answer to this question about how to end a game with japanese
rules is that it over a longer course of time it is solved through
social interaction. If someone refuses to score games correctly you
simply never play a game with that person again. Also if someone would
do this in a club setting everyone would soon know about it and the
offender would have to adapt or never play a game again.
On the internet however it is much easier to abuse social conventions
and get away with it. This applies not only to go but basically all
activities, and therfore one often see extra control systems such has
ratings on Ebay, moderators in discussion groups, etc.
Japanese rules work perfectly fine in real life, but one have to
realize it is because it is a social game not a mathematical
abstraction.
-Magnus
Quoting Dave Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Japanese: bad.
I don't think this is the case at all. The Japanese rules
are just a human optimization, to avoid having to make the
last 100 meaningless moves, and still arrive at the correct
score with a minimum of extraneous manipulation.
The tortured details, while not elegant, rarely matter.
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