I support having stone scoring as an option for ranked games.
Though, this only really requires group tax to be implemented as an option. Any area scoring rules + group tax would already be equivalent to stone scoring. Japanese rules + group tax would be how I’d play my ranked games if given a choice.
They are not actually completely equivalent. Depends on how you implement group tax for the seki groups. If you want to be true to the spirit of stone tax, you have to separate different seki, since some seki have eyes, many false eyes. or even contain opponent’s stone within seki eyes, etc. And kinda need some “captured all that can be captured, and filling all need to be filled in seki” rule to score them with stone scoring.
I would prefer a stone scoring (group tax) where the computer can take over after move 250
new idea… let me do group tax scoring on a 9x9 board, or even a 13x13
thanks!
Jungo was named by O Meien, a professional Go player 
It was devised because the concept of ‘territory’ is often too difficult for beginners to grasp.
According to him, once you improve using these rules as a starting point, you can smoothly move on to the traditional rules based on ‘territory’.
