Ancient Go variants

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Indeed was mentioned here

Stone Scoring

There was a previous discussion on Stone Scoring: And Rengo was brought up. Well, I have been studying some ancient 4-4 joseki in Wizardry from the Stone Chamber (1590) and I was hoping to get a game going, though the feature is not implemented. The way to do this seems to be using Chinese rules, setting komi to 0, and working from there (2 less points per group for the 2 necessary eyes). No issues right? Or am I missing something.

and most recently here as a potentially beginner friendly option

Please add Stone-Counting to OGS: teach go to beginners!

I’ve lately had the pleasure of teaching Go to several beginners, and I’ve been looking for ways to streamline the process. Many online resources recommend beginners first try playing online games on OGS. I’m inclined to agree- compared to the other servers, it’s very user-friendly. From my teaching efforts, a few things have become clear to me. The rules of Go’s gameplay are the model of elegance. However, to a beginner, our modern scorings systems are confusing or even incomprehensible. The…