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Nakade
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  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Life & Death, Shape, Go term

A nakade is a play inside an opponent's eye.

Example

[Diagram]
Three points.

Black can kill this group by playing nakade at B1,



Unsettled eyeshapes are those eyeshapes where a killing nakade is possible.
Basic living eye shapes are those where a killing nakade (in one move) is not possible.
Dead eyeshapes are those where a nakade is not needed to kill: the group is already dead.

Be aware however that these basic shapes ignore two major effects:

For several possible reasons, the eye shape may contain more enemy stones. Any eye shape which is filled with stones so that almost filling it with a killing shape is inevitable, is dead. These patterns are listed at killable eyeshapes.

A combination of both circumstances can be found at Biggest known eye space for which there is a nakade

Bill: The above makes it sound like nakade are only about killing. They are also involved in races to capture.


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