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Counting Liberties
   

In the British Go Journals 102 through 107, Richard Hunter wrote a magnificent series on counting liberties, which also appears in Richard Bozulich's Second book of Go. A table, resulting from this series is to be found [ext] here

Some basic explanations:

In a semeai (capturing race) without kos, depending on the type of fight, one can calculate the result, based on some counting that a child can perform.

  1. Determine the type of fight you are in
  2. Determine which side is the favourite
  3. Count the liberties and introduce them into the appropriate formula
  4. Determine the result

--DieterVerhofstadt

The British Go Journal articles will soon be reprinted in a book "Counting Liberties Workshop" by [ext] Slate and Shell. The contents will be expanded with additional examples and problems.

-- Richard Hunter



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