Life and Death

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Chinese: 死活 (si3 huo2)
Japanese: 死活 (shikatsu)
Korean: 사활 (sahwal)
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Life and death is an important part of Go. If you can keep your groups alive, or are able to kill those of your opponent, it will make a large difference to your game. Here are some pages which deal with this subject.

Table of contents

General

Corner shapes

Side shapes

Some good advice

Life and death exercises on SL

Life and death exercises elsewhere

Conventions

Books


[1] Note that the Chinese, Japanese and Korean names translate as "death (and) life", not "life and death".


[2] zinger: Harada's problems are the best I have found on the web - always very realistic game positions. Beware the difficulty labels, however: "elementary" can be tricky, and "intermediate" can be quite hard, at least for me.

unkx80: I would say that his "elementary" problems often verge into the intermediate/advanced territory. But it is one of the best problem collections.


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