Please help, I forgot how to calculate yose value :(

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Please, could someone show me / point me to article about calculating yose move (how many points is this move worth)?

I just got back after a 1 year break and suddenly I forgot the “good way” to calculate it. I only remember the old way I used to calculate (in Elementary Go Series), but it’s really slow to calculate. I remember I learned a much quicker way 5-6 years ago, but since it’s newer I’m not used to it yet and ended up forgetting :sob:

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Was it this sort of thing with area counting

Using area counting instead of territory?

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Thanks, I’m still in the process of reading it. But at current time (first article), it’s still doing the “X points in gote” approach.

Iirc the new method I learned just assign a value directly to the move at the end e.g. “playing here is 5.25 points”, “playing there is 3.125 points”. Sente/gote/double-sente/double-gote is already part of the calculation. Because tbh the sente gote suffix just add unnecessary complication for deciding moves.

Does this also end up with a precise number or still “4 points in gote”?

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So you are more interested in miai counting?

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TBH all these fractions of a point won’t matter much especially at the amateur level. It’s better to save your braincells by just estimating based on the whole number e.g. this move is slightly more than 5 points, that move is much more than 3 points etc.

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I know, but usually I end up with a tons of 2 points sente vs 4 points double-gote vs 2 points reverse-sente etc and my brain just fry from remembering all those moves and sorting them in play order.

It’s a lot easier to sort a list of real number :sweat_smile: