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Eye in the belly
Path: EyesCollection · Prev: EyesThatLoseLiberties · Next: RecognizingAnEye
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Life & Death, Go term
A potential eye, such as this one at the marked point, may have a big effect on the almost filling of groups. It doesn't need to be a real eye to make a difference.
This is a simple capturing race, which Black has already won.
In this shape there is no way for White to make seki.
In this case, with one more space inside, what happens? Black can kill by making the eye.
White is alive after 1: Black now cannot successfully almost fill. Note on polite English: 'belly' might be considered a little colloquial, or childish, compared with 'stomach', in spoken English. There is a further example (in the centre) at the end of killable eye shapes called 'eye in the stomach'. jsha: However, 'belly' has some appropriate connotations. The belly is traditionally one of the most vulnerable parts of a dragon, and as such is a good place to strike. Also, something is said to 'go belly up' when it dies. Path: EyesCollection · Prev: EyesThatLoseLiberties · Next: RecognizingAnEye This is a copy of the living page "Eye in the belly" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |