I am new here and to Go (just started a few days ago) so a big HELLO first of all
For the most part I understand how to score/count territory buy I am confused by the following circumstance.
Why does black have the outside territory counted for it if it is not surrounding that territory? Same with white, it is not surrounding any territory but has white territory counted all around it.
In other words: those intersections are eligible to become territory but they arenât yet.
In other words: itâs more likely that these intersections become territory than others that are farther from played stones.
You could imagine it as a sort of âenergy fieldâ spread by stones.
At this point in the game, itâs just a statistical guess. Later on it could become more accurate, but beware! Score estimators may be wrong and also misleading sometimes.
Ah ok so itâs an estimation, thanks everyone. So just to follow up then, what about this situation.
In the marked red area (by me), white has been given the points, it is not fully enclosed within white stones though, at B1 and J1 black is there with connection to other black territory, why does white get awarded the points? Or is it another estimation problem because the game did not fully finish, it was passed which ended the game:
Auto-scoring is far from perfect, thatâs well known. When playing a bot nothing else will work though, as otherwise the human could always just cheat. I think I even read somewhere that it is recommended to kill all the groups of your opponent when playing a bot. Since they always play with chinese rules, itâll never cost you.
Estimation and scoring are two completely different things. Scoring can only (accurately) happen if the condition is met that there are no more valuable moves to make, as in no moves (for the mover) which affect the outcome (positively for the mover). One of the subconditions is that all borders are closed, which isnât met here.
Ok, thanks for the clarification, this makes sense now. As for which rules they use, I have the option of using Japanese rules but for some reason at the end of the game it still counts the stones, so I suppose it wasnât actually implementedâŚnot sure.
BTW: if this happens to you again, you should be able to resume playing instead of accepting the strange score. (Not 100% sure though if that works against bots, havenât been in the situation yet.)