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Beginner Exercise 15 Solution
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Problem
Splice: I can only seem to make White live in seki with 1. Possible continuations:
If Black doesn't take 2, White will be able to make two eyes. White 3 makes seki. If Black plays inside, White gets a bent four and lives. If White plays inside, he only gets three in a row, and dies. The circled point is the only possible weakness, but Black cannot get it before White connects it.
White has two eyes whatever happens.
White 1 does not work, because Black 2 reduces White to one eye.
It seems to me that, yup, whatever you do, even giving white 5 moves in a row, if white doesn't put one of the stones on that circled point and black takes it, white dies. So, that HAS to be the first move.
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