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pass-alive
Keywords: Life & Death, Go term
A group is pass-alive if it keeps its alive status even if the defender continues to pass.
RobertJasiek: For the Consider a string of a player in a position. The string is pass-alive if for the hypothetical-strategy of the player that consists of only passes the opponent does not have any hypothetical-sequence that starts from the position, with the opponent, and has a capture of the string. Note: This definition presumes some other definitions for the terms used therein. Note: This term can be used as an alternative for the ambiguous unconditional life. Example
No matter what White tries against this group, it can not be captured.
This group, although it is normally considered alive, can be captured by White - by playing at a, b, c and d for example. Authors
Robert Jasiek: terminology This is a copy of the living page "pass-alive" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |