Go handicap score adjustment calculator

Calculate black supplied component score and white component score plus supplied adjustments with your own figures.

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Use the units shown. Results update as you change valid inputs.

Use black supplied component score and white component score plus supplied adjustments to compare changes to your inputs. The method and limits below explain the scope.

Examples

Examples

Try the starting example

Black stones, White stones, Black territory, White territory, Black prisoners held, White prisoners held
100,90,30,35,5,10
Supplied component-counting model: area or territory
area
Supplied White komi adjustment
6.5
Handicap stones used for supplied adjustment
3
Extra White score per handicap stone under chosen supplied policy
2
Black supplied component score
130
White component score plus supplied adjustments
137.5
Black minus White final score, signed
-7.5
Larger supplied score
White
Total extra White handicap adjustment
6

Try another scenario

Black stones, White stones, Black territory, White territory, Black prisoners held, White prisoners held
100,90,30,35,5,10
Supplied component-counting model: area or territory
territory
Supplied White komi adjustment
6.5
Handicap stones used for supplied adjustment
3
Extra White score per handicap stone under chosen supplied policy
2
Black supplied component score
35
White component score plus supplied adjustments
57.5
Black minus White final score, signed
-22.5
Larger supplied score
White
Total extra White handicap adjustment
6
Calculation method

Calculation method

Black supplied component score

Area model=Black stones+territory; territory model=Black territory+Black prisoners held.

White component score plus supplied adjustments

Analogous White components+supplied komi+handicap count×supplied per-stone adjustment.

Black minus White final score, signed

Black−White; this does not adjudicate the board.

Larger supplied score

Black/White/Tie based on supplied adjusted totals.

Total extra White handicap adjustment

Handicap count×supplied adjustment, separate from komi.

Symbols and units
a
Black stones, White stones, Black territory, White territory, Black prisoners held, White prisoners held
b
Supplied component-counting model: area or territory
c
Supplied White komi adjustment
d
Handicap stones used for supplied adjustment
e
Extra White score per handicap stone under chosen supplied policy

Use the units shown. A list keeps the order in which you enter its values. The symbol ^ means “raised to the power of”.

Assumptions & limits

Assumptions & limits

  • Supplied Go component-score arithmetic with explicit compensation. This does not infer life/death, seki, dead stones, pass stones, handicap policy or legal board scoring, and is not a full AGA/Japanese/Chinese rules adjudicator.
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Further reading

AGA: area/territory counting background; compensation in this worksheet is supplied explicitly ↗

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