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Kill yourself in gote
Path: Mistake   · Prev: Kikasare   · Next: KyuDisease
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Life & Death, Tactics

Even worse than death in gote is to kill your own group in gote.

Here is a full list:

  1. live in sente
  2. live in gote
  3. die in sente
  4. die in gote
  5. kill yourself in gote.

Killing yourself in gote can be seen as equivalent to losing three moves, compared to the top level; levels 2 and 3 on the list both mean unsettled status

-- Matti

Fwiffo: Is it not possible to kill yourself in sente?

Neil: I'm guessing some sort of Mutual life example can be found where you throw away your stones, the opponent has to respond, and then you're left with the same initative you had before, only having suffered a loss.


Example

(from the carpenter's square)

[Diagram]
Death

B4 is suicide in gote. Tenuki leaves Black with an eyeshape White can only almost fill with living shapes.



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