Little Go

Black starts. Place stones on empty crossings. Connected stones share breathing spaces (empty neighbours up, down, left or right). Surround all their breathing spaces to capture them. A move cannot leave your own stones without air, unless it captures first. Earlier board positions cannot repeat (positional superko).

Both players pass when finished. Together, mark groups you agree cannot escape as dead, then count. Disagree? Keep playing to capture them. Area score counts stones plus enclosed empty crossings; shared spaces count for neither. White gets 6½ extra points for going second. Captured stones are shown for learning, but aren’t added again to the area score.