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Capture
Difficulty: Introductory
Keywords: Tactics
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Captured stones that are taken off are called prisoners or captives. Those that are apparently captured are usually called dead. You may think this is in a way contradictory; and you would be right [1]. See also killing, dead stones, legal position. Different special tactical situations:
Capture go is a tutorial variant, using only the rule of capture. [1] For the curiosity. In 1978, Winfried Dörholt, later president of the German Go Federation, published the introductory go book Das japanische Brettspiel Go, in which the terms captured and killed are in fact used switched. For instance (p. 20):
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Fits nice with "can't escape", but not so good to "not alive". Wonder why he did it. Can't remember that this was the usage in Germany (or anywhere else), and his occasional slips don't suggest: p. 12, "fünf Punkte Komi, das sind fünf gefangene Steine im voraus" ("five points komi, that's five captured stones in advance"), or p. 95, "Nach W 138 sind die s Steine immer noch tot" ("After W 138 the b stones are still dead"). -- Robert Pauli This is a copy of the living page "Capture" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |