Practice makes perfect when it comes to Go! We are going to focus on vital points. Vital points are the special parts of the shape that determine if a group gets captured or lives.

What happens if you have an eye and your opponent doesn't? How does that affect the capturing race? Well, let's do some problems and see if we can learn more about who wins the race.

Sometimes in Go, there is no room for negotiation. You must capture your opponent, or they'll capture you. Capturing races are when two groups are in a race against time to see who runs out of liberties first.

Sometimes even if we're put into atari, we cannot escape. When our stones are squeezed into an inefficient shape, we sometimes find that we just cannot escape.

Let's introduce double sente and reverse sente! Remember, in the end game, we have a certain order that we want to play moves in. It's important to understand if your move is sente, or just looks like it.