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Beginner Exercise 5 Solution
  Difficulty: Beginner  

lavalyn 17k trying to figure out how to make SL diagrams.

[Diagram]
Diag.: A nice ko for black.

Black can make a ko where he captures first.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Black 1 is already at the vital point.

Attempts to defend the threatened corner stone does not work. (White dies in gote.)


[Diagram]
Diag.: White got hosed.

The squeeze does not work because of damezumari.

A nice one-sided ko if there ever was one.



unkx80: This solution is perfect. I'll just add a bit more. =)

Actually this one is also a kind of bent four in the corner.

[Diagram]
Diag.: When black wins the ko.

If black wins the ko, he will connect at 1. The white group becomes a bent three? nakade and dies.

RexWalters: This is especially important if white has one more liberty (say the marked stone is missing). In this case the squeeze play above does give white life.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Failure.

Black 1 is at the wrong point, white 2 lives.





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