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Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Life & Death, Go term
Eyes are a central concept in Go, since two eyes guarantee the life of a group and one eye can mean a great advantage in a capturing race. In general, what Go players call an eye is an empty space surrounded by stones of one colour, the simplest forms of which are the single point eyes.
Here are single point eyes in the centre (unmarked), at the side (marked However, larger surrounded spaces can also be called eyes. For these we refer to eyespace, eyes collection and life and death. For a more thorough explanation of single point eyes, we refer to recognizing an eye. Also, beware of a false eye that may look like an eye. There is much discussion on the definition of what is an eye and what is not. The discussions of technical algorithmic definitions is meant mainly for mathematicians and computer programmers, for whom absolute precision is needed.
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