While scoring a game against a friend of mine, I came across what seems like buggy auto-score behaviour:
A few things I notice:
- I believe the black group on the left is dead. Auto-score disagrees. (I guess it’s possible I’m wrong… and the game isn’t quite over, so if you think I’m wrong, maybe you should wait until it is to explain why… although if that potentially flipped the game result I’d also be happy to resign…)
- The stones are in a single chain, but have two different statuses according to auto-score: some are black points and some are pink points. Shouldn’t every stone in a chain have the same status?
- It seems unexpected that any stones on the board would be marked as pink. Shouldn’t only unoccupied points be pink?
- NOT SHOWN: the exact configuration of pink points isn’t always the same. I clicked “cancel and resume” once (then we passed again), and I also clicked/unclicked the dead stones a few times, and through that I’ve seen different sets of stones in that chain marked pink. They are not always adjacent. In at least one case I saw three different statuses simultaneously in that chain: black, pink, and transparent (where part of the chain was semi-transparent as-if dead, but not marked white).
I can’t remember whether #1 and #4 are still expected sometimes with the new auto-score, but #2 and #3 seem pretty suspicious to me.
Here’s a link to the game as a test case: 9x9, 6 stones