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Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races
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This is a book by Richard Hunter published by
Sample pages are at
See also Table of ContentsPart One: Basic Principles
1. Counting Liberties Part Two: Applications
5. Fighting Tactics
6. Problems
This book is based on my articles in the British Go Journal nos 102 to 120 (1996-2000).
Some of the early articles were published in the Belgian Go Journal, translated into Dutch by Stefan Verstraeten (Is that right Stefan?). Stefan: That is correct. Six articles covering the definition of Type 1 to 6 fights, plus the summary overview. Great to see that this must have material is now available in book form! Mr. Zandveld will receive my order very shortly.
Most of Chapters 1 and 5 was included in The Second Book Of Go If you have already read all the BGJ articles, then the main new material is Chapter 4, which mirrors Chapter 1 but looks at capturing races involving ko. Chapters 3, 6, and 8 are mostly new too.
Types of fights given here in
In Chapter 1, I introduce six types of fights
On page 1, I define liberties as the unoccupied points directly adjacent to stones and mention that this is a simplification that will be extended later. On page 16, after introducing approach moves, I redefine liberties as the number of moves it takes to capture the stones. If I want to refer to the dame on a group after that, I use physical liberties.
Use of Japanese terms
I have deliberately made minimal use of Japanese terms in order to make the book easy to read for beginners. The ones I have used are: sente, gote, hane, seki, ko, tesuji.
Specific terms related to capturing races
inside liberty Comments
I carefully avoid using the terms mutual liberties, which is the cause of a lot of misunderstanding. This is a copy of the living page "Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |