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Capturing race

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on each group: if for example there are four liberties each, the advantage will lie with the player able to play first, while if one side has four liberties and the other five, the result is already decided and neither player will continue (the player who is behind will normally leave the area alone,
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After the next few moves, the situation becomes clearer. Despite black's best responses, the five white stones have one more liberty (the one below move 9) than black does. If it's not clear how white survives, see the next image for detail...
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This problem (Difficulty: 5 dan) begins with B1. Can white save his stones and "make life"? This kind of problem is called a semeai; where one is in a "race" to capture the opponent first...
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W2 is the correct move here. Black approaches with B3, and white protects with W4. Note that both B and W groups have four liberties, and now it's Black's move...
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One common outcome is that one group is captured, resolving the race. In the most simple situations it is possible to predict this result, by counting the
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striving to capture each other, in some closely delimited area of the board. Typically it is not possible for each side to create a safe group with
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After W10, B11, W12, the black stones are in atari. When eventually black plays 13 (as a ko threat), white can capture the four black stones.
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of a direct or indirect nature, and (rather rarely) more exotic types of repeating situation such as
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is a tactical situation created in positions when both players have
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There are numerous other possible outcomes, for example a
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