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Basic Life Shapes
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Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Life & Death
Here are some basic life shapes. See also: Nakade Life shapes have to have two eyes.
This is the smallest life group you can create. Now, why is this group alive? Consider the next diagram:
Even though black is surrounded by white, it is completely alive. If white plays 'a' or 'b', that stone will die at the end of the turn, and the black group will still be alive.
These two groups are small as well (just 5 and 6 stones) but this is interesting because it is not one unit (one string of connected stones) -- it is two codependent units. (White requires a stone at a or b. -- Dale)
Here's another invincible pair.
This is the smallest unit I can find along the side.
Here are the smallest alive shapes in the center. --FCS, ArnoHollosi
I don't think you'd ever see this shape in a game, but it's interesting in that there are four co-dependent groups.
Here's a group of three units. And the list goes on and on... --FCS Path: LifeAndDeath · Prev: · Next: BasicDeathShapes This is a copy of the living page "Basic Life Shapes" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |