Forum for False Eye Life
false eye misunderstanding [#673]
When false eyes are eyes ...
This expression may hint to the infamous two-headed dragon or the rules issue moonshine life.
Many people seem to use this expression with the following position in mind:
![[Diagram]](diagrams/31/67146e2e8dbd286a1ae20493fd1e9eab.png)
The circled points are eyes. The point marked a is a connection rather than an eye. Black can play there without altering his life and death status, which is not true of either of his eyes. (Black would lose a point, in Japanese counting).
It is true that White cannot play at a, ever, which makes this point resemble a single point eye?. It is also true that if Black occupied one of the squared spots, the point a would also be an eye.
Yet, the point a should not be thought of as a false eye or a real eye but as a connection.
HandOfPaper: My own thoughts on this, coupled with something similar having occurred in a game of mine, led me to think of the following live formation:
![[Diagram]](diagrams/28/766dd494da7e04d71db2a3fdbf51c699.png)
iopq: Nothing weird about it. The circled points are eyes. The squared points are the three diagonal points required for a real eye.
![[Diagram]](diagrams/7/1a4aa9c20a1f0c486c9911d65c49496c.png)
In this diagram, all black groups are alive: White can't play in either of the circled points. However, all four corners of both circled points are filled with white stones. The "two-headed dragon" proves the TwoCornersKillsTheEye saying to be false ; this diagram proves that even four corners do not always kill the eye.
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