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| Ladders
In my mother tongue, it is actually called stairs, which is much more fitting (shame on English)




Okay, ladders. They are the bread and butter of every serious go player. They are everywhere! The idea is simple, but training your mind to seeing them everywhere takes time. But seriously, understand ladders or go home. It's the difference between killing and being killed.
Ladders are again (as most of things in go) simple in the idea, but hard to apply well. Let us start with a simple example.





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Ladder is a situation where a stone (or group) can never get more than one new liberty. Meaning your opponent can keep atariing it until it hits a wall or ranother stone. And that's it. But I can't stress enough how improtant the ladders are. You have to see a ladder before it comes to it. And misreading a ladder usually means something will die.

If you wanna practice ladders just set up the starting shape on a board. And then take handfull of stones and throw them softly in the direction of the ladder. Then try and read out whether the ladder works or not before playing it out.






Actually, let me get back to this one later
EZ , I got this, what's next?