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Eternal Life
Keywords: Life & Death
Eternal life is yet another situation where jigo (-- isn't it a case of "no result"?) can occur. Several special rules, such as Ing Ko Rule, forbid the recurring sequence to occur. However, enternal life is so rare in games that if one occurs, a Chinese Go text says that: You should buy fish, vegetables, meat and wine And have a good party to celebrate yourself Of course, it's an exaggeration...
This is the situation to begin with.
Black 1 begins by sacrificing two stones (to prevent the formation of bulky five)...
Black 3 takes back two white stones...
White makes a throw in at 4 to destroy the eye, and the cycle repeats itself when black 5 sacrifices two stones again.
--unkx80
BillSpight:
White has the option of making seki:
unkx80: A better way of making seki, ya? :)
But suppose white needs to kill black in order to win, and black would never let go of his group, then eternal life occurs.
Bill: Must have been late at night. :-)
unkx80: OOPS... Sorry! :(
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