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| Section 3. Life and Death (Article 11, 12) |
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Article 11. Life |
| Any group with two
separate and secure eyes, or potential for this, is
alive. If a group does not have two eyes but cannot be
captured, it is deemed to be alive ( Figure 7 )
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Figure 7
In A and B
Black's groups
are
alive.
In C and D
the internal
groups are
alive.
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Article 12. Bik (a local
stalemate, seki in japanese) |
| In a capturing race when
neither group has two eyes, but cannot capture the other
group, it is called Bik (a local stalemate) In this case
no empty points are counted as territory
(Figure8) |
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Figure 8
These
positions
are all
Bik
(local
stalemates).
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