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Rectangular six
    Keywords: Life & Death

A group with a big eye with the shape of a rectangular six, is alive except for rectangular six in the corner.

[Diagram]
Rectangular six

Here, the eyespace is at the side, but in the center the implications are the same. The vital points are a and b and they are miai, as shown in the following diagrams.


[Diagram]
Main line

W2 makes miai of a and b to live with six points.


[Diagram]
Variation

W2 makes miai of a and b to live with six points.


[Diagram]
Two moves in a row

If White tenukis, playing W4 elsewhere, White is still alive but now lives in seki: Black can at most almost fill with a bent four. However, this seki is not valid for rectangular six in the corner.



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