What is the simplest Go scoring system? It's this:
- Stone Scoring: just count the stones on the board
At the end of the game, both players will want to fill in as much of their own territory as they can, while allowing two eyes per group (so they aren't captured). Then the winner is just the player with more stones on the board. Note that prisoners are not counted.
But nobody wants to play all these extra stones at the end. So we can instead use: