Scoring procedure

[Conrad_Melville]

The autoscore is not nearly as good as you think. See these threads:

A compendium of OGS's terrible scoring system confusing beginners

I’ve participated in several threads here recently about scoring and how the current design is deficient and should be improved. Here’s yet another example of the problems caused.

Autoscore is still overriding players’ skill level

After the long discussion that occurred in another thread when the new autoscore was introduced, I thought it was agreed that the algorithm would be fixed to prevent the kind of thing seen in the game cited above. It is obvious that neither player saw the tesuji in this game, due to their skill level. This is not like the common case of groups that have false eyes and are counted as dead because one doesn’t have to capture dead stones. This is a two-move tactic, i.e., a variation. Where does i…