Editing Rules of Go (section)

=== Scoring ===
Historically in China a scoring system was used that penalized the player who had the greatest number of unconnected live groups of stones. On the basis that every group needs two eyes to be alive, and that the two eyes could not be filled in, two points were deducted from the score for each live group at the end of the game. This was known as the "cutting penalty" in Chinese, and is sometimes referred to as the "group tax" in English.<ref>{{citation|last=Fairbairn|first=John|title=New in Go|url=http://www.gogod.co.uk/NewInGo/NewInGo.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112213532/http://www.gogod.co.uk/NewInGo/C%26IP.htm|chapter=The rules debate as seen from Ancient China|chapter-url=http://www.gogod.co.uk/NewInGo/C&IP.htm|publisher=Games of Go on Disc|access-date=2009-06-09|archive-date=2013-01-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> This rule is not applied in modern Chinese scoring.