Area Scoring

    Keywords: Rules

In area scoring, your score is:

  • the number of empty points only your stones surround
  • plus the number of your stones on the board

Area scoring is used in certain rulesets, notably Chinese Rules, AGA rules and Ing Rules.

To determine the score with area scoring, Chinese counting is generally used. An alternative method is Ing counting.

Area scoring is independent of life and death, even though some rulesets abuse those terms as if they were relevant. Life and death exist on the strategic level. Strategically dead stones should be removed so that only the strategically alive stones remain that then surround empty points that before were not surrounded by either player's stones because typically those empty points were in between strategically alive stones of one player and strategically dead stones of his opponent.


Examples:


This page is derived from the general scoring page. See also territory scoring versus area scoring.



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