Comb Formation

    Keywords: Life & Death

Chinese: 梳形 (shu1 xing2)
Japanese: クシ型 (kushi kata)
Korean: -

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Comb formation

The comb formation is like a rectangular six, but with cutting points. On the side, it has cutting points at a. It is a basic life and death shape.

See The comb formation is alive.

[Diagram]

Broken comb formation in the corner?

The broken comb formation in the corner? has only one cutting point (a).

Black first: It is alive with B1 at W1.
White first: It is ko after B4 as shown in the diagram.


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