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Those rulesets weren't written by mathematicians. What do they say about life & death disputes while scoring "after the game has ended"? I'm going to guess: Resume the game.

Humans agreeing on a score and outcome has little to do with what a program has to do to calculate this score.

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It's complicated. Most rulesets (AGA, New Zealand, I believe chinese) say "resume the game". The Japanese ruleset is a lot more complicated.

I still don't see your argument. Humans and humans are capable of agreeing on a score with those rulesets. Computers are also capable of following the ruleset and agreeing on the score. Computer vs. human games are not playing by a different ruleset. By that ruleset, the game is over when both sides pass.

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