It’s worth noting that although this teaches the rules in a intuitive fashion, I think this may encourage people to form a two eye stronghold—and then sit back happy with a tie. Though perhaps this is hard to get on such a small board. Or even this is the concept you want to teach!
Another scoring option could be to use the Stone Counting variant, where whoever has most stones on the board at the end is the winner.
More general comments about teaching go: I would encourage skipping 9x9 for teaching, I found that this doesn’t really give a sense of territory and instead making one mistake often costs you the game.
It’s worth noting that although this teaches the rules in a intuitive fashion, I think this may encourage people to form a two eye stronghold—and then sit back happy with a tie. Though perhaps this is hard to get on such a small board. Or even this is the concept you want to teach!
Another scoring option could be to use the Stone Counting variant, where whoever has most stones on the board at the end is the winner.
More general comments about teaching go: I would encourage skipping 9x9 for teaching, I found that this doesn’t really give a sense of territory and instead making one mistake often costs you the game.
Sensei’s Library also has some collated thoughts from people on board sizes, and some other different variants for teaching