The Chinese Rules of GoFrom James Davies, The Rules of Go, in The Go Player's Almanac, ed. Richard Bozulich, Ishi Press (San Jose, 1992) Extracted, adapted, and edited by Fred Hansen Under the traditional Chinese rules, a player's score was the maximum number of stones he could in theory play on the board. Since every groups needs two liberties to live, this rule created a two-point group tax: t..