Online-go.com: Fix score display legibility

[popz73]

Hi guys,
the score display of OGS is by far the hardest to read on all servers/apps.

This is mainly due to OGS's unique design decision of painting squares over every single stone on the board, which gives a messy display/information overload, territories are hard to grasp at a glance.
Using the same SGF on different apps to illustrate:

OGS:

IGS:

Fox:

KGS:

No other server is drawing over non-captured stones, which gives them a cleaner display. I personally find IGS's implementation to be very legible

If for philosophical reasons you prefer to continue drawing over all stones, then the display could be inspired in Sabaki's approach, which is able to do it while giving a much easier at-a-glance perception of territories:

[koshogs]

Part of what you are seeing in your first pic is due to Chinese counting. Compare with:

which is one of your own games from OGS using Japanese Rules.

[popz73]

thanks, good to know the issue is limited to Chinese scoring - no reason the display should be different, though (we don't need the square to remind us they're non-captured stones)

[BHydden]

we don't need the square to remind us they're non-captured stones

The square isn't indicating that they aren't captured stones, the square is indicating that in Chinese scoring they count towards your score... it is a visual distinguisher between territory and area scoring.

[popz73]

... I know what Chinese scoring is, the stones being alive is the
definition needed for them to being counted as points.
No one else shows them that way for a reason - the examples I gave above
are all with Chinese counting as well! And if you really want to reinforce
them as points, there are better ways to do it, e.g. Sabaki

On Fri, May 15, 2020, 01:09 BHydden [e-mail] wrote:

we don't need the square to remind us they're non-captured stones

The square isn't indicating that they aren't captured stones, the square
is indicating that in Chinese scoring they count towards your score... it
is a visual distinguisher between territory and area scoring.

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