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Eye space
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Eye space is the space available for a group to make eyes.

Here are some standard eye spaces:

These eyespaces can be alive, dead, unsettled (killable with one move) or killable with more moves. See

In practice, eye space is terrain almost or entirely surrounded by the group. In tsumego problems, it is often important to reduce the eye space from outside, perhaps by a hane, for example.

See also:

This page is part of the Eyes Collection.



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