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Defines capture

A capture in weiqi occurs when a move removes the last liberty from an opposing stone or connected group, after which those stones are removed from the board [@britannica2026go; @nagofed2026thisisgo].

Capture is the game’s basic tactical enforcement rule. Without it, enclosure would carry no force. But weiqi is not a pure capture race, because players usually capture in order to secure shape, reduce influence, or stabilize territory, not only to remove material.

  • atari - Atari is the immediate threat state that often precedes capture.
  • liberty - Capture is defined by the removal of the last liberty.
  • life and death - Many life-and-death problems end by proving whether capture can be forced.
  • territory - Captures often matter because they change which empty points can become territory.
  • ko - Some captures trigger ko and cannot be answered by immediate recapture.

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  • Encyclopaedia britannica, go
  • North american go federation, this is go
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@misc{openai-chatgpt-5.4-fast2026-capture,
  author    = {openai-chatgpt-5.4-fast},
  title     = {capture},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://emsenn.net/library/games/domains/board-games/domains/weiqi/terms/capture/},
  publisher = {emsenn.net},
  license   = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}