Editing Rules of Go (section)

===Japanese rules===
These are rules used in Japan and, with some minor differences, in Korea.<ref name="JapaneseRules">{{cite web | url = https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/match/kiyaku/zenbun.html
| title = Japan Go Rules | date = 15 May 1989
| publisher = Nihon Ki-in | access-date = 9 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://senseis.xmp.net/?JapaneseRules | title = Japanese Rules
| date = 5 February 2025 | website = senseis.xmp.net | access-date = 9 March 2025}}</ref> They are in wide use throughout the West, sometimes known as "territory" rules. The scoring is based on territory and captured stones. At the end of the game, prisoners are placed in the opponent's territory and players rearrange the board so that territories are easy to count, leaving a visual image resembling the game, which some players find aesthetically pleasing. There is no superko (the triple ko leads to an undecided game). Suicide is always forbidden. Komi is 6.5.

Disagreements about whether certain groups are alive or dead, and about the counting of territory, are resolved in a notoriously complex manner (see {{section link||Counting phase}} above).

Japanese rules count vacant points in a seki as neutral, even if they are entirely surrounded by stones of a single color.

====World Amateur Go Championship Rules====
The rules of the [[World Amateur Go Championship]] are based on the Japanese rules, with some differences.<ref>[http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/rules.html [s n a f u &#93;] {{in lang|de}}</ref> These rules are sanctioned by the International Go Federation.