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I have tried to find suitable webpages but cannot find any. What I find is too trivial, too advanced or lacks explanations. Therefore, I recommend you books. However, "just started playing Go" might mean that you are not ready for the books yet. Before reading books, play your first 100 games, try to get at least two spaces where to make eyes or partition a bigger space into at least two smaller spaces, understand suicide and nevertheless learn to remove simple opposing groups by first approaching from the outside then from the inside of exactly one surrounded space. Books:

- First Fundamentals, chapter Life and Death: explains the basics of making eyes and removing stones beyond the "2 eyes is alive" advice. Although the chapter is short, read it before the following book because the chapter is relevant for your understanding and more basic.
- Life and Death Problems 1 - Basics: Most problems will be too difficult for you, but you should read the book because of its careful explanation of what is and how to recognise an eye and all the basic techniques for life and death including those for constructing or destructing an eye.
- Capturing Races 1 - Two Basic Groups: Most of the book is about capturing races and is too advanced for you, but the chapter Terms and Basic Theory discusses also eyes in great detail. However, you must be aware that, in this book, the eyes are eyes of basic capturing races and therefore use a different concept: a space representing at least two eyes is not called an eye. For such already live shapes, read the other books.

Among the lots of other books on life and death, I do not recall any convincing explanation showing space partition or removal carefully. I think there are a few other books with sample examples of sequences for nakade filling and removal but, IIRC, too short and too specialised.