2) The Scan feature also kind of speaks for itself, you play on an intersection to scan for a hidden stone. This does not take up a turn (so you can play a stone on the same turn you use scan).

Sol, I'm not sure about how this could work - presumably you can only do this once per turn otherwise you could find that hidden stone?

I think you can only scan once per game.

Also, I just realized this should probably be in the Malkovich forum, so if a moderator wanted to move it there, that would be cool.

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Presumably captures are a point each?
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Nope, I think you keep the 5 points. I remember that from one of the two games I tried.

I don't mind moderating if necessary, by the way.

So, I'm even more confused than I was. Every stone is worth a point, or every move? My understanding was the moves were worth points, and judging on the online scores (> 170 on a 13x13 board!?) you get extra points for making captures rather than them disappearing from the opponent.

Also, the 5 point places. Do you gain the points from having them at the end of the game? Or at the point you make them? If the latter, do they get taken away if that stone gets captured? After that stone gets captured, does someone else get the 5 points again for playing back in that point?

A capture takes the opponent's stone off the board. So the point(s) that he got for playing that (or those) stone(s) are removed from his score.

For example, if the opponent plays a two stone group on the board, he has gained two points because each move on the board is worth a point. So say he is black and the score, later in the game, is 12 points for black and 8 for white. Two of these 12 points were acquired by the two stone group that we are talking about. If white captures two of black's stones at this point, black's score is reduced to 10, because he no longer has the stones that gave him those points on the board.

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Also, along these same lines, I believe that if you occupy the 6-1 point, for example, and gain 5 points. You have those 5 points on your score, but later in the game, if the stone is captured, I believe that the 5 points are taken back away from you. I can verify this when I get home today.

So, I'm even more confused than I was. Every stone is worth a point, or every move? My understanding was the moves were worth points, and judging on the online scores (> 170 on a 13x13 board!?) you get extra points for making captures rather than them disappearing from the opponent.

Also, the 5 point places. Do you gain the points from having them at the end of the game? Or at the point you make them? If the latter, do they get taken away if that stone gets captured? After that stone gets captured, does someone else get the 5 points again for playing back in that point?

Only one scan, let's say it costs 2 points, that's fine, happy with that.

I bet 4 points initially. Presumably we keep going up with the bets until someone accepts? Or should I have let you bet first? I guess it doesn't really matter

As for >170 points, are you sure?

Okay, here's some information that I looked up.

Your final score is:
(Your base stone count x 5) + Points you gained from the turn betting (if you gave your opponent the first turn) + (the number of plus points you played on x 5) - (the number of minus points you played on x 5) + the stones you have on the board + the territory that you are surrounding.

And, as stated earlier, you lose 2 points for scanning.

There might be some other scoring details, but I think that this is the general way to compute the score.

In Sol's post you linked to that was one of the scores in the image in his post.

I don't mind moderating if necessary, by the way.