> I was wondering why they didn't keep a running total of the score after each move, and show it somewhere on the screen. Isn't that pretty easy to automate? U

> I was wondering why they didn't keep a running total of the score after each move, and show it somewhere on the screen. Isn't that pretty easy to automate? Until you are close to late-game the scoring of many of the positions is quite flexible (depending on sente, and how certain local situations are resolved) so although you would may have a semi-reasonable approximations for total points, the games have been close enough that a +/- 5 point error in estimating will make it impossible to tell who is actually ahead. That said, it would be very curious if we could get a virtual-board with AlphaGo's evaluation function used to score each position.