Semeai, is direct fight, a fight that will be lost by the group that has less liberties than the other one. This kind of close fight, combat mode in igo games is rather popular, but I would like to make a comment that as I saw some pro players, usually very intense semeai appear mostly in games of weaker player. I suppose that pro players can read far enough to realize if it is worth to get involved in semeai or better change the strategy. An example of semeai you saw on the previous page, here, where depends on who �s turn is, some groups get killed.

  One of the ways to see if semeai, or groups of stones are ..ready to kill or impossible to kill, is to count the liberties all the time, and to check or fight to get The two eyes. Well, igo was taught a lot in ancient times from Master to pupil, let us remember that:

� Sensei ni shimoku deshi ni mo shimoku nari � - He takes four stones from the pupil, who takes four stones from the master.

 So, many strategy and tactic notes where learned from better players, proverbs of GO - Badook - WeiQi spread a lot among Weiqi players. To get to the point, one proverbs says ì group with 2 or more eyes is alive ì