Eye space
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Eye space a term coined by Howard Landman. Informally, it is the space available for a group to make an eye or eyes. In practice, eye space consists of points on the board almost or entirely surrounded by a player. In tsumego problems, it is often important to reduce the eye space from outside, perhaps by a hane, for example. (See Futokoro.)
Eye space may include points within an existing eye, depending on its eye shape. Eye shapes can be alive, dead, unsettled (killable with one move) or killable with more moves. See
- Basic living eye shapes
- Unsettled eye shapes
- Dead eye shapes
- Killable eye shapes
- and Table of eye spaces.
See also:
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