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Beginner Exercise 7 Solution
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Problem

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[Diagram]
Diag.: Solution 1

Black 1 makes the living eyeshape of bent four. a and b are now miai to keep this eyeshape and prevent it from being reduced to straight three. Black lives with 4 points.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Solution 2

Black 1 works too but White 2 forces Black to answer at 3. This way Black lives too but with only two points.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Failure 1

The most tempting failure is probably this atari Black 1. White ignores it and takes the vital point of 2.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Failure 1 (cont)

Black's capture is answered by the nobi of 4 and if Black finally protects his eyespace, it is already reduced to straight three and White plays the killing move 6.





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