Life and Death
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.
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General
- Life and Death
- Eyes, Two eyes, Eye space and the Eyes Collection
- Nakade, Almost fill, Killing shapes and Killable eyeshapes
- Smallest group with two eyes
- Dead eye shapes, Unsettled eye shapes, Basic living eye shapes
- Seki
Conventions
Corner shapes
Open formations
- The L group is dead
- L+1 groups
- L+2 groups
- L+2 with descent
- Long L group
- Tripod group
- J groups
- J+1 group
- Hovercraft
- The Carpenter's square becomes ko
Four spaces eyespace
Six spaces eyespace
Seven spaces eyespace
Eight spaces eyespace
Other corner positions
- Square nine in the corner
- Five Stones on the Second Line in the Corner
- Five Stones on the third line in the corner
- Joseki related life and death
- Occupy the Two-Two Point
Side shapes
- Preventing escape on the first line
- Six die but eight live (on the second line)
- Four die but six live (on the third line)
- Notchers
- The comb formation is alive
- The door group is dead
- Tall door group
- Eternal life
Exercises
Life and death exercises on SL
- Gokyo Shumyo Tsumego Series
- Igo Hatsuyo-ron Problems
- One Day 1 Problem
- Beginner Exercises
- Kyu Exercises
- Random TsumeGo - life and death problems that do not enter the series
- Tim Hunt's problems
Life and death exercises elsewhere
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goproblems.com
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GoBase problems
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TsumeGo of the Day
- Hitachi Go Problems
- Go collections
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Bemerkenswerte Eckstellungen, die entweder verloren gehen oder zu Ko oder Seki führen (in German) from the Leipzig Go web site, translates to "Remarkable corner positions that are either going to be lost or lead to ko or seki"
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Segoe's sequences (Dead link? -- Jan. 13, 2009)
Advice
Books and Essays
- Life and Death by James Davies
- Get strong at life and death by Richard Bozulich
- One thousand and one life and death problems by Richard Bozulich
- Ingenious life and death puzzles by Yang Yilun
- LiChangHo Jingjiang Weiqi Sihuo attributed to Lee Chang Ho (Chinese text)
- All About Life and Death by Cho Chikun
- Basic Life and Death Dictionary by Eba Hiroki
- Dictionary of Life and Death
- Classical Go Problem Books
- An overview of life and death an SL deshi
[1] Note that the Chinese, Japanese and Korean names translate as "death (and) life", not "life and death".