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Beginner Exercise 60 Solution
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Problem
There are actually two solutions for this problem.
The clamp at 1 is a tesuji for expanding eye space. If White 2 at 4, Black can connect at 3 and the result is still the same.
Black can also make a cut at 1. To save the three stones White has to play at 2. Subsequently Black 3 and 5 are a tesuji combination, and Black lives with 7. Caution: Do not play Black 3 at 5: White can connect at 3 and Black cannot make the eye on the top.
But suppose White pushes up with 2 first? That's suicide -- Black just captures all the stones with a series of atari moves.. (I put this in for reference; I thought White could escape, until I made up the diagram. -- Scartol)
Black 1 does not expand his eye space enough.
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