Scoring Go Game (original) (raw)

December 4, 2025, 4:03pm 1

Hello. Very new to go, like I only started learning 3 days ago. Anyways, im not fully sure about how the scoring works. Look at this game:

I am black. The “13” next to the black stones means I captured 13 white stones during the game, and this excludes any white stones that are dead at the end when the game is scored. I count that I have territory 13 and white has territory 20. If my understanding is correct, I need to subtract dead black stones from my score, which means my actual score is 13-9 =4. White has 20-1 =19, plus 6.5 Komi makes 25.5, which means white beat me by 21.5, but it says white beat me by 16.5. What am I misunderstanding? Thanks.

Dean_Davidson (Dean Davidson) December 4, 2025, 5:00pm 2

Hey - this forum is actually for the Go Programming Language:

Go_guy (Rick) December 4, 2025, 5:19pm 3

Oh shoot that’s embarrassing my bad. Thank you though.

tonnytg (Antonio Thomacelli) December 5, 2025, 10:29am 4

Hey, don’t be embarrassing it is normal this confuse. If you lose interest in Go Game, try learning with us Go as a tool. You can create incredible things with Go Lang. You can automate your email replies or even build a product search engine on the web. You can also think of this as a game too, where you learn each logic and algorithm to pass to a next level.