Life In 19x19

If a stone is played which would capture one or more stones, is it safe to assume that at least one of the captured stones will be touching the played stone? Yes, because the played stone must by definition removes the last liberty of the group captured. Or is it possible to capture stones with a ...

Hi everyone. I am still a beginner at the game of go, and I am also a programmer. I am currently writing an easy-to-use software for playing go either online or offline. However, the algorithm I am using to detect captured stones are very slow. I thought of an enhancement, but I am not sure if my ...

Thank you everyone for your replies. I feel like my understanding of the game got better :)

I have a follow-up question, since I haven't yet really completely understood the concept of alive vs dead. In my understanding, stones that are alive are stones that cannot be captured, such as stones ...

Hi everyone. I am new to the game of go, and I think I understand how scoring works. I guess my question is more about strategy.

Suppose the following board is the complete board:

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