Auto scoring

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I think I raised a similar question here:

What does the Auto-Score button exactly do?

In the scoring phase of the game, there an “Auto-Score” button. I have been hesitant to try it, since manually marking the stones is easy enough, and I wasn’t sure if that button would automatically commit the user to using the auto-scoring. What exactly this button do? I guess it would attempt to automatically make life/death determinations, but does it also automatically accept/commit the user to that determination? Or are you still able to modify it if something was marked incorrectly?

The auto score button just resets the stone status to the initial position. The players can still edit it and need to confirm it. It’s useful for quickly fixing things if a lot of things get messed up.

Scoring for some bots works differently, where the stone status is automatically decided and cannot be edited by the human player. I suppose this is to prevent abuse. To avoid issues, it’s best to remove all doubt about life and death by using Chinese rules (which most bots already require) and playing on until you’ve captured any questionable enemy stones, and clearly established life for all of your stones.