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Do prisoners count under Chinese scoring?

The rulebook's area-scoring definition says so, and replies agree.

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jdludlow · Community · 2022-02-03

No. Chinese area scoring counts only your living stones plus surrounded empty points; prisoners are not scored separately.

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