When I click on “Watch | Games”, I see several real-time games with the following layout:
I understand the clock information and the rank information, and I understand that the last-played stone has the circle in it, but I have a few questions:
–Whose name is listed at the top: the person playing white, or the person playing black?
[EDIT: The name of the player who is playing the black stones is listed on top, which seems backwards: in most books, diagrams appear to be drawn from the black player’s perspective, with the black player sitting at the bottom of the image.]
–The number on the bottom right side, is this the previously agreed upon Komi?
[EDIT: it is the komi plus the number of captures made by the white player.]
–What is the number of points in the upper left? Is this the number of captures? If so, by whom?
[EDIT: It is the number of captures made by the black player.]
Thank you. (It would be helpful if this layout information were explained on the help page entitled “The game view and playing games”.)
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IIRC: The amount of currently totally enclosed territory were you to score the game now, plus captures, plus komi. In other words a useless number I have wanted to delete for years but never made a PR.
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Thank you.
This number on the upper left side is sometimes bold and sometimes not, and it always seems to be positive: so how does it tell me which player is ahead?
And how are captures recorded? Is the Komi adjusted accordingly, or are captures something you can’t see while observing a game?
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Bold is whose turn it is.
I understand that the bold player name is the player who is currently on the clock.
Is the “estimated score” shown in the upper left side “in bold” when the player whose turn it currently is, is winning? (And not-bold when the player whose turn it currently is, is losing?)
EDIT: This “estimated score” appears to be bold when the black player is on the clock–and the “estimated score” appears to always be positive. I’m confused by it.
Ah, I’ve investigated this a bit more and it appears that the number on the upper left side is the number of captures made by the player playing black, while the number on the lower right side is the number of captures made by the white player plus his komi.
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