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Unsettled
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Life & Death

An unsettled shape is a shape who's life or death depends on sente.

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Diag.: Unsettled shape

Here is a pretty simple case on an unsettle shape. Whoever plays 'a' first will win (in a certain sense). If black plays there, he'll live; if white plays there she'll kill black.


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Diag.: Another unsettled shape

This is another simple shape which is unsettled.


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Diag.: White plays and wins

If white plays first, she plays 1, and her group is alive since 'a' and 'b' are miai.


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Diag.: White dies

If black plays first, then white is killed by black 3.



See also: UnsettledThree



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