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Liberty nomenclature
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Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Tactics, Go term
In the course of discussions there were a number of pages created, relating to the description of the liberty concept. The sense of liberty used at liberty - introductory is what elsewhere is called primary liberty, physical liberty, what-you-see-is-what-you-get liberty, dame liberty or just dame. The objection to calling this just dame is that the word has another meaning, neutral point. Liberties in this sense are the liberties of a chain, rather than a group. They can always be counted as the number of empty points adjacent to a chain of stones. A careful way of saying the other sense would be capture metric liberties of a group. So one has the slightly pedantic notion of capture metric liberty, which simply means a count of one play in a sequence to capture a group in a capturing race. It is however important that the surviving chains are specified, on each side of the capturing race. When groups are not single chains, sacrifice possibilities arise.
By inspection the That's because White can gain a liberty by connecting to either of the two-stone chains.
It is tempting to use the secondary liberty concept. White's The secondary liberty concept is unproblematic in some cases. Those seem to be the types of capturing race in which one has a mental 'map' of where they are. Then one can count liberties as primary+secondary, with the former located adjacent to the chain (assuming it is a chain, rather than a group); and the latter elsewhere and in definite places. In that sense secondary liberty means much the same as approach move - but not perhaps precisely, as explained on the secondary liberty page. Sacrifices can slow down the opponent in a capturing race: in some cases this means that approach moves are under the stones relative to the initial position. In other cases the group involved in a capturing race involves stones that are cutting stones, which cannot be sacrificed. We can then get the opposite effect: approach moves that are sente for the opponent, typically negative secondary liberties in a false eye. See also Path: LinguisticsEnglish · Prev: EyeShapeEyeSpaceDiscussion · Next: LivelyDebateOnEnglish This is a copy of the living page "Liberty nomenclature" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |