KGS Go Tutorial: Captures

Go Tutorial Index

  1. Introduction
  2. Basics
  3. Chains
  4. Liberties
  5. Captures
  6. Capture Go
  7. More on Captures
  8. Eyes
  9. Living Groups
  10. Scoring
  11. Game End
  12. Ko
  13. Play Go!
  14. Last Notes

A chain in go is captured when it has no liberties left. It's that simple! For example, if white plays at the marked space below, then it will take up black's last liberty, and white will capture all three black stones:

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White can capture.

Now you can try out the quiz below. Do as many problems as you like, then move on to the next page of the tutorial.

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