A note about Go

Many unexperienced players don't understand the basic aspects of Go strategy and think that the main goal of the game is to capture as many opponent's stones as possible (we provide the rules, of course, but I am sure there are people who don't read them). This is wrong and usually leads to endless games where more and more stones appear on the board, along with increasing number of the captured ones. And, which is even more complicated, when the situation requires to mark and accept dead stones, the players who don't know the purpose of it tend to rejecting thedead stones offer and it means that the game could really never end.

Since the algorithm of detecting dead stones in Go is kind of complicated and would consume too much computing resources to be 100% correct (and I am not even sure if the 100% is really possible, covering all configurations of stones), BrainKing does not have it. Ergo, if your opponent does not want to cooperate even in a totally lost position, the best solution is to send me (Fencer) a message containing the game ID and a short explanation why the game should be finished manually.

This action can be applied on any game type, of course. But since Go is the most usual source of this kind of problems, the article is mostly focused in it.

The bottom line - if you receive a message of losing a game of Go because an administrator has finished it manually on a request, please don't take it as a biased action against you. The point is to maintain a good level of a fair play.