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White takes blacks liberty, so both white and black have 2 liberties.
 
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If Black plays first, he can take white's liberty.
 
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In this position marked white and black stones have both 3 liberties. There is a race on capturing stones. Here the player who starts capturing opponents stones first wins the care.
 
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Capturing race
 
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Net is a kind of loose way to capture stones.
 
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A ladder is seldom played out. If the ladder works, there is no reason to try to escape. If the ladder does not work, there is no reason to try to capture.
 
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If black tries to continue the attack, white can play as in diagram. This lets white to capture a stone from either of the marked positions next. White move could as well be in A or B.
 
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In the end black cannot reduce white liberties to one, and the ladder fails. The result is bad for black.
Blacks stones are weak, and no white stone is captured. White can expect to attack or capture some of the black stones.
 
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A ladder does not always work. Here the marked stone prevents the ladder from working. Marked stone is called ladder breaker.
 
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This result is terrible for white.
 
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Finally white has only one liberty left.
 
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