Life and Death

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Chinese: 死活 (si3 huo2) [1]
Japanese: 死活 (shikatsu) [1]
Korean: 사활 (sahwal) [1]

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.

Table of contents

General

Conventions

Corner shapes

Open formations

Four spaces eyespace

Six spaces eyespace

Seven spaces eyespace

Eight spaces eyespace

Other corner positions

Side shapes

Exercises

Life and death exercises on SL

Life and death exercises elsewhere

Advice

Books and Essays


[1] Note that the Chinese, Japanese and Korean names translate as "death (and) life", not "life and death".


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