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When false eyes are eyes
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When false eyes are eyes ...

This expression may hint to the infamous two-headed dragon or the rules issue moonshine life.

Many people seem to use this expression with the following position in mind:

[Diagram]
"False eye"

The circled points are eyes. The point marked a is a connection rather than an eye. Black can play there without altering his life and death status, which is not true of either of his eyes. (Black would lose a point, in Japanese counting).

It is true that White cannot play at a, ever, which makes this point resemble a single point eye?. It is also true that if Black occupied one of the squared spots, the point a would also be an eye.

Yet, the point a should not be thought of as a false eye or a real eye but as a connection.


WME'd to completely rewritten at 24-01-2004/. [ext] Previous version --Dieter



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