Just use "Chinese". It is mentioned in FF[3] (e.g., see
http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/ff1_3/ff3.html#Properties under Root
Properties). I see no reason why this would have changed.

<Flamebait> Notice that the Chinese rules don't really use positional
superko. The KGS version of the Chinese rules do, but the official
Chinese rules are a bit more sophisticated...</Flamebait>

Erik




On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Peter Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
> SGF(2) has a place to specify the ruleset, according to
> http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html:
>
> Property:     RU
> Propvalue:    simpletext
> Propertytype: game-info
> Function:     Provides the used rules for this game.
>               Because there are many different rules, SGF requires
>               mandatory names only for a small set of well known rule sets.
>               Note: it's beyond the scope of this specification to give an
>               exact specification of these rule sets.
>               Mandatory names for Go (GM[1]):
>                       "AGA" (rules of the American Go Association)
>                       "GOE" (the Ing rules of Goe)
>                       "Japanese" (the Nihon-Kiin rule set)
>                       "NZ" (New Zealand rules)
>
>
> How can we specify the Chinese rules normally used in computer Go?
>
> They're *almost* equivalent to AGA rules, but AGA uses situational superko
> while Chinese uses positional superko. The difference would only come up
> extremely rarely, potentially making for a nasty bug.
>
> For those who don't know these terms:
>
> http://senseis.xmp.net/?Superko
>
> --
> Peter Drake
> https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/drake/
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