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Here is an elementary life & death problem presented in Kageyama's "Lessons in the fundamentals of Go". I was wondering about an alternate solution I think I found. Here it is:

[Diagram]
Diag.: Alternate solution?

This is the move I am currently thinking about.


[Diagram]
Diag.: 6 at 1

If white takes, it is reduced to a bulky five and black can take the vital point:


[Diagram]
Diag.: Dead?

If not, black can take the group of three and the best white can do seems to be a dead shape of square four, or maybe bent three.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Given Solution

This is the given solution, resulting in a dead bent four in the corner.

Can anyone give me a pointer on wether I'm right or not with my alternate solution?


Bill Spight: Interesting idea! :-)
However:

[Diagram]
Diag.: Ko

If B 5 at 6, W 6 at 5 lives.


Thanks for the quick reply -- my brother, to whom I give a few stones when playing, pointed out that it'd end with a ko if I went for the three stones. I worked out the 5 at 6 idea after that. It felt like a nice move though :) --Splice



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