I'm trying to teach myself the rules to the board game Go and I can't find any rules online that explain the scoring in sufficient detail. I don't know of any Go forums, so I figured that this would be as good a place as any to ask... Can someone please explain the rules to me?
I understand the mid-game rules. I understand that the game ends as soon as either player resigns or both players pass consecutively. What I do not understand is the final scoring. I can't seem to find any formal description of how the game is scored. Can someone please explain it to me? Please don't use vague descriptions; give me a formal definition, so I could write a computer program to evaluate the final score from a given final board and knowledge of captured pieces.
