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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The **ko** rule states that one mustn't make a move that returns the board to th
**Handicaps:** TODO.
**Implications of rules and basic of strategy/tactics:** life and death, eyes, atari, TODO.
**Implications of rules and basic of strategy/tactics:** The very basic observation a beginner has to learn is that of life and death and especially so called **eyes** -- an eye is simply an empty square inside a group of stones, and it can easily be deduced that **if a group has at least two eyes, it can't be taken by the opponent** (the eyes have to be SEPARATE though, two empty squares next to each other aren't two eyes). One eye isn't enough to keep the group alive -- the opponent can still surround this group and then take it by placing one stone in the eye, so two eyes are necessary. From this it follows that players try to make groups with these two eyes and more tactics follow from it -- for example if it's clear a group can no longer form two eyes, usually the player just stops wasting more time on it and lets it be sacrificed. This is the number one "implied" rule and many, MANY more follow, but here is not a place to recount them all: for more please refer for example to the Sensei's library.
**Example:** the following is an example of the end state of a beginner game on a 9x9 board: