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Liberty
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Go term
The liberties of a stone or a group of stones are the empty intersections next to it. When a stone or a group of stones loses its last liberty, it is said to be captured and is removed from the board.
As you can see in this diagram,
The group of three white stones has three liberties. Comments:
BillSpight: Liberty has two different, but related meanings in English. The first is given above, an empty point adjacent to a stone or chain of stones. The second is a play required to capture a stone or chain of stones. Sometimes it takes more plays to capture a stone or chain of stones than its number of adjacent empty points. Nakade Liberties is used in the second sense. unkx80: Sometimes the term approach move is used to denote liberty used in the second sense. You may refer to Semeai and Eyes Win Semeais for more information. See Also Authors:
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