![]() StartingPoints Referenced by
|
RTG Problem 4 Solution
Keywords: Life & Death, Problem
The placement at White 1 is the tesuji. Black 2 offers the strongest resistence. However, White 3 and 5 is a clever play, as such Black 8 cannot connect at 9 because of shortage of liberties. White 9 takes away the second eye.
Black 2 tries to expand the eye space, but the hane at White 3 destroys the possible eye at the corner. After White 7, black dies from a straight three.
The simplest way of making ko is to hane at 1.
Black lives.
In the main line, if White 3 extends into the corner, then Black 4 to 8 forces a seki. This is a copy of the living page "RTG Problem 4 Solution" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |