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Two-Headed Dragon
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    Keywords: Life & Death

[Diagram]
Two-headed dragon

A "two-headed dragon" is a position where two eyes that are at first sight false eyes are nevertheless enough for living. To get this position, the group has to be a ring around some living group of an opponent, as in this diagram. Because the eyes are connected to each other in both directions, White cannot play at either of them first, and thus they function as real eyes, even though they have all the looks of false ones. In actual play, these positions are extremely rare but not non-existent.



Note that the definition ...

  • A virtual eye is an empty point reached by chains of the same color.
  • A group lives, if all of its chains reach the same two virtual eyes.

... covers this "beast".

Hmm... really?

[Diagram]
Example 2

Not all chains reach the same two virtual eyes.



[Diagram]
A Dragonnewt?

And how about this one? A baby dragon? ;-)

No, I would consider these two normal eyes, not two 'seemingly false' eyes. The 'missing point' is not under white's control. -- Andre Engels

'Missing point'? Anyway, I just brought it up because I think these eyes are as false as those in the first diagram.



See also the pages in the Eyes Collection.



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