That stupid virus thread is hot on our heals, I refuse to have our glorious meme thread outdone by a bug chat!
…further, single meme per post format allows viewers to like specifically the memes they wish, whereas if many memes are in one post they must decide whether ‘all’ get a like, or none.
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.