Hyppy's Blog Problem

Stupid attempt?  

Hyppy Now, keep in mind the outside wall is completely artifical, but it serves the purpose to illustrate that there is no escape route for black's stones. I played at 1 to see what I could pull out of it. Amazingly enough, the next diagram shows what happened.

BobMcGuigan: This is an example of Play on the point of symmetry

Hyppy That was my intention. I didn't even think it could work though!

Bob It does seem that there is a lot of space in the corner, but the shape is bad.

uh oh ...  

unkx80: As far as I can see, Black is dead after .

No seki  

BobMcGuigan Playing as here kills Black.

Hikaru79: It wasn't seki before, either, but this way works too.