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Seki with eyes question 7
    Keywords: Life & Death, Question

Just a related question: I remember having read that one set of rules actually split the points in a seki depending on which player has the most stones surrounding the 'eye' or shared liberty... ?

This was true in some older versions of the Ing rules. In current Ing rules, all empty points bordering both colours are shared 1/2-1/2, but in the oldest versions it was indeed shared based on the number of stones of the two colours surrounding them. - Andre Engels

Another example of seki with eyes (well, sort of) which has come up in my games a couple of times is given here. Although White has no real eyes,[1] White is still alive in seki. At least once, after a throw-in to reduce Black's eye to 1 point, this shape won the game for me.

[Diagram]
Outer stones alive (3)

-- Morten Pahle


[1] Bill: Looks like a real eye to me. :-)



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