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| Author: | RobertJasiek [ Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | On "Points at the end of a game" |
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. |
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| Author: | Phelan [ Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: On "Points at the end of a game" |
A link to the thread in question, for those that haven't seen it: Points at the end of a game |
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