Editing Rules of Go (section)

===Ing rules===
Ing rules were developed by the Taiwanese industrialist [[Ing Chang-ki|Ing Chang-Ki]] and are currently supported by the Ing Foundation, which sponsors the prestigious [[Ing Cup]], where it has used these rules since 1977. The current version of the rules dates from 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ing Rules |url=https://senseis.xmp.net/?IngRules |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Sensei's Library}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ing's SST Laws of Wei-Chi |url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/go/rules/SST.html |last=Ing |first=Chang-Ki |access-date=2025-03-09 |year=1992}}</ref>

The scoring is basically the same as area scoring, but is done with a special technique involving "Ing bowls". Both players must start with exactly 180 stones; the Ing Foundation makes special bowls that allow players to count their stones easily. Prisoners come back to the owner. After the game finishes, both players fill their empty territory with their stones. The one that gets rid of all of them is the winner. Black pays White eight points (komi) by allowing four white stones in Black's territory to be placed at the beginning of the counting phase. As Black wins ties it is 7.5 in effect. The [[#Ko|ko]] rule makes a distinction between "fighting" and "disturbing" ko. Multi-stone suicide is allowed.