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Doesn't the board get filled up with stones? I could see how a go player might think a win is a win so it doesn't mater how many stones you win by, but I don;t
by gweinberg 2y ago
Doesn't the board get filled up with stones? I could see how a go player might think a win is a win so it doesn't mater how many stones you win by, but I don;t see how you would go about delaying winning.
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- zahlman 2y ago>Doesn't the board get filled up with stones? To some extent, but a player who's way ahead could still have a lot of latitude to play pointless moves without endangering the win. In the case of Go it's generally not so much "delaying winning" as just embarrassing the opponent by playing obviously suboptimal moves (that make it clearer that some key group is dead, for example). Although it's possible to start irrelevant, time-wasting ko positions - if the opponent accepts the offer to fight over them.