Life and Death
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Life and death is an important part of Go. If you can keep your groups alive, or are able to kill those of your opponent, it will make a large difference to your game. Here are some pages which deal with this subject.
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General
- Life and Death
- Eyes, Two eyes, Eye space and the Eyes Collection
- Nakade, Almost fill, Killing shapes and Killable eyeshapes
- Smallest group with two eyes
- Dead eye shapes, Unsettled eye shapes, Basic living eye shapes
- Seki
Corner shapes
- The L group is dead
- L+1 groups
- L+2 groups
- Long L group
- Tripod group
- J groups
- The Carpenter's square becomes ko
- Bent four in the corner
- Twisted four in the corner
- Rectangular six in the corner
- Two by four box
- Walkie talkie seven
- Gun six
- Gun eight
- Square nine in the corner
- Eight point eye possible ko
- Joseki related life and death
- Occupy the Two-Two Point
Side shapes
- Six die but eight live (on the second line)
- Four die but six live (on the third line)
- Five in contact to the corner live or die according sente (on the second line)
- Notchers
- The comb formation is alive
- The door group is dead
- Eternal life
Some good advice
Life and death exercises on SL
- Kanazawa Tesuji Series
- One Day 1 Problem
- Beginner Exercises
- KyuExercises
- Random TsumeGo - life and death problems that do not enter the series
- jfc001: Determine the status of Black's corner
- A Japanese book shop - quite difficult
- Hitachi Number 9
- Hitachi Number 314
- A completely artificial problem - difficult (Dan level?) with a lot of blind spots
- Maeda Nobuaki 108 Discussion
- Tim Hunt's problems
Life and death exercises elsewhere
Conventions
Books
- Life and Death by James Davies
- Get strong at life and death by Richard Bozulich
- One thousand and one life and death problems by Richard Bozulich
- Ingenious life and death puzzles by Yang Yilun
- LiChangHo Jingjiang Weiqi Sihuo attributed to Lee Chang Ho (Chinese text)
- All About Life and Death by Cho Chikun