On "Points at the end of a game"
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:53 am
This corrects the most apparent rules-related mistakes in the thread "Points at the end of a game".
For beginners, area scoring is easier than territory scoring because, for beginners,
- area scoring is (or: should be) applied when all the stones on the board score (i.e., when all possibly dead stones have already been removed),
- territory scoring is applied when possibly dead stones have not been removed yet and some (e.g., hypothetical or doing / undoing) means to determine stones as dead must be applied as a substep.
Area scoring, as performed by beginners, is a one-step process of counting the area score. Territory scoring, as performed by beginners, is a two-step process of first determining the dead stones and then counting the territory score. A one-step process is simpler than a two-step process!
There are various counting procedures for scoring methods, among them:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/int.html#Counting
Not all procedures count to 180; there are procedures counting only small numbers (such as the winning margin)!
For rules terminology, a distinction of 'scoring' and 'counting' is necessary because the terms have different meanings
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/endrules.html#scoring
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/endrules.html#counting
and because there are different counting procedures FOR (especially particular) different scoring methods! Algebra defines what the 'score' "x+y" means, but you use a counting procedure for specific values of x=2 and y=2 (such as bending two and then another two fingers, to notice to have bent four fingers altogether, or such as typing "2", then "+", then "2", then "=" into your pocket calculator and then read the figure shown) to (let) do the actual calculation.
For beginners, area scoring is easier than territory scoring because, for beginners,
- area scoring is (or: should be) applied when all the stones on the board score (i.e., when all possibly dead stones have already been removed),
- territory scoring is applied when possibly dead stones have not been removed yet and some (e.g., hypothetical or doing / undoing) means to determine stones as dead must be applied as a substep.
Area scoring, as performed by beginners, is a one-step process of counting the area score. Territory scoring, as performed by beginners, is a two-step process of first determining the dead stones and then counting the territory score. A one-step process is simpler than a two-step process!
There are various counting procedures for scoring methods, among them:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/int.html#Counting
Not all procedures count to 180; there are procedures counting only small numbers (such as the winning margin)!
For rules terminology, a distinction of 'scoring' and 'counting' is necessary because the terms have different meanings
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/endrules.html#scoring
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/endrules.html#counting
and because there are different counting procedures FOR (especially particular) different scoring methods! Algebra defines what the 'score' "x+y" means, but you use a counting procedure for specific values of x=2 and y=2 (such as bending two and then another two fingers, to notice to have bent four fingers altogether, or such as typing "2", then "+", then "2", then "=" into your pocket calculator and then read the figure shown) to (let) do the actual calculation.