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

[yebellz]

@Conrad_Melville

Chinese/AGA rules encourage players to stall by infilling or by hopeless invasions.

Similar arguments have been made before. Here is my response that I used previously.

@yebellz

@gennan

does not punish trolling when there are no more plays that are worth points

I don’t think that Japanese-like territory rules really punish trolls either. In order to perceive it as a punishment, we would have to assume that trolls care about the difference between losing by X points and losing by more than X points. Often, I think that some trolls will gladly worsen their own score in order to waste the time of their opponent (or maybe even hope that their victim times out or abandons the game). Further, there are often time wasting moves (like playing needless ko threats) that do not reduce one’s own score. Hence, I don’t think this aspect of territory scoring has such a large impact on discouraging trolling. On the other hand, I think the complexity of resolving life and death disputes under the official Japanese rules (and similar territory scoring) systems introduces considerably more opportunities for trolling and abuse, even in the form of a player exploiting a novice by confusing them about the correct procedure.