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The process of visualizing potential moves done by you and your opponent to learn the result of different moves is called "reading". GNU Go does three distinct types of reading: tactical reading which typically is concerned with the life and death of individual strings, Owl reading which is concerned with the life and death of dragons, and connection reading. In this Chapter, we document the tactical reading code, which is in engine/reading.c.