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Temporary seki
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The most likely way that a seki proves only temporary, is that one of the outside groups dies; with the effect that one of the groups in the seki lives at the expense of the other.

There is a theoretical possibility that one player in a seki gives it up (by a auto-atari), as a ko threat, which will then be a loss-making threat of quite serious proportions.


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This example of a temporary seki is taken from the solution page of RTG Problem 20.

Although the WC stones and the BC stones seem to be engaged in a seki, the outside BS stones are all dead, so effectively all the Black stones are dead.


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To illustrate this, we see that White can play the WS moves to remove the outside BS stones from the board.

Now it is obvious that the BC stones are dead as well, which means that the apparent seki was only temporarily.



--unkx80



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This is a copy of the living page "Temporary seki" at Sensei's Library.
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