Life In 19x19

But why would Black disagree with the stone being dead if he could win points, and make a difference on how the end result will be, in some cases maybe even deciding who wins?

Okay i understood that now, but I still have this one question:

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Here its says that the first board is considered finished, because the black stone, as pictured in the second board would be captured quite quickly. But even if so, wouldn't it shrink down white's territory drastically? Because as ...

Hey so we played another game right now, but we came to a point which confused us again. Saying we have got the situation as it is shown in the first picture. that would be 5 points for black. but if white places this one stone inside of the territory, black can't remove it and is therefore ...

Hey so we played another game right now, but we came to a point which confused us again. Saying we have got the situation as it is shown in the first picture. that would be 5 points for black. but if white places this one stone inside of the territory, black can't remove it and is therefore ...

Wow you are really the nicest people on earth! All your answers helped a lot, I think i understood it now. Thanks, you brave soldiers

Heyall,

my friend and I decided to learn Go, and we had some fun games, but we always stumbled across this one thing about territory that confused us:


Lets take this picture for example. As I would assume, the upper part belongs to the black player and the down part to the white player. But why ...