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Temporary seki
Difficulty: Intermediate
Keywords: Life & Death, Go term
The most likely way that a seki proves only temporary, is that one of the outside groups dies; with the effect that one of the groups in the seki lives at the expense of the other. There is a theoretical possibility that one player in a seki gives it up (by a auto-atari), as a ko threat, which will then be a loss-making threat of quite serious proportions. Example
This example of a temporary seki is taken from the solution page of RTG Problem 20.
Although the
To illustrate this, we see that White can play the
Now it is obvious that the
--unkx80 This is a copy of the living page "Temporary seki" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |