These rules must be applied in a spirit of good sense and mutural trust between the players. Go is a game in which two players compete in skill on a board,from the begining of the game until the game stops according to article 10,to see which can take more territory. A game refers to the moves played until the end of the game.
Blacks plays first in a non-handicap game.
White plays first in a handicap game. The board is a grid of horizontal and vertical lines. The maximum number of horizontal and vertical lines is 19,forming 361 intersections. Plays are made on unoccupied intersections,reffered to as empty points. The point on which a play is made is called a point of play.