Idk imgflip wanted me to make this
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This one is wonderful >w<
(OK, arguably a key group has three liberties, but we’re talking about the numbers here, right??)
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The fact that White has to fill at 1-3 before playing the 1-1 atari makes that 1-3 point a “crypto-liberty”.
I suppose it’s very humorous to think of the Count counting crypt-o-liberties 
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this is just how you count liberties in L&D
effective liberties are much more important than literal liberties
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well, kinda… It has 3 liberties if and only if b plays a move first to reduce one of the B3 group’s liberties, otherwise 3 then 2 makes it the expected 2 liberties
the reasoning for the 3 liberty count if b does this though, is that when it comes to semiai, we like to say “the group with more liberties wins”, with an even number of liberties winning a tie. Naturally most of the time this is true if you only count the empty spaces that we teach beginners are liberties, but in this case the b group has 2 of those, the w group has 3, but it’s still unsettled. So what a lot of books (and players) do is redefine liberties to be instead “the number of moves you need to capture” with a slight modification for if the opponent has responded (it’s actually very similar to “speed calculations” in shogi), in which case after b has reduced a liberty on the B3 group, the triangled group requires 3 moves to capture (at 1, 2, and 3 in that order), hence 3 liberties.
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A. I don’t think memes are drowned, it’s very easy to spot them, they are maybe the same size and pics, I’d guess most people just scroll all of them.
B. I don’t think we need yet another rule on how and when to post, just let people be 
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Go books for advanced players https://fb.watch/40KXgHVi8t/
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