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Stone Counting Method Example
Here is an example, step by step, of the Stone Counting Method. This Example Game has just ended with two passes.
1: Note the territoriesThe players agree that:
2: Remove the dead stones.In the diagram, the points where the dead stones were are marked with a circle.
3: Fill in the territoriesEach territory is filled in with stones of the same color from the bowls.
4a: Determine the winner by rearrangementNow the stones are rearranged so that Black's stones are all on one side and White's are all on the other. It is important that at this point no more stones are added or removed from the board. Now it is clear that Black has won. In addition, you can see that White and Black each have four full rows of stones. In the center, White has one stone and Black has eight. Therefore, Black has seven more stones than White. Black has won by seven points.
4b: Determine the winner by pair-wise removalFor younger children, instead of rearranging the stones, they stone can be removed in pairs. Remove a pair of stones, one white and one black, from the board. Then keep removing pairs until there is only one color on the board. For example, the circled stones are removed as a pair:
Then the next pair can be removed: Notice that it doesn't matter which two stones you remove, so long as one is white and one is black.
At the end, the board will have only one color left: Black has won. Black had seven more points than White. 4c: Determine the winner by countingInstead of rearranging the stones they can be simply counted directly: Black has 44 stones, and White has 37. Black wins by seven points. BillSpight: For real stone counting:
This is a copy of the living page "Stone Counting Method Example" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |