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Beginner Exercise 88 Solution
KarlKnechtel: This is the best I can do right now... Black already has one eye, and the only plausible way to make a second is by capturing. Black 1 is a natural way to start - anything other than white 2 allows black 2 at to to capture something and make the eye.
Black 3 is double atari, and connecting still leaves white in atari. So white elects to save the larger group of stones here.
Black 5 ataris again, starting a ko. If white chooses to connect instead (at 6), black 7 puts the pressure back on. Nando: Good try, but there's a better way to get life (without ko)
Black 1 is the key. White has no choice but to connect at 2. Then, black 3 gets the second eye because of the cutting point at a.
With the sequence up to 9, black captures white's group.
So, White must connect and Black then ensures life.
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