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Beginner Exercise 5 Solution
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Problem
lavalyn 17k trying to figure out how to make SL diagrams.
Black can make a ko where he captures first.
Attempts to defend the threatened corner stone does not work. (White dies in gote.)
The squeeze does not work because of damezumari. A nice one-sided ko (picnic ko) if there ever was one.
White 1 and 3 die, is that group not alive? SAS: What group? Black 5 captures all White's stones... unkx80: This solution is perfect. I'll just add a bit more. =) Actually this one is also a kind of bent four in the corner.
If Black wins the ko, he will connect at 1. The white group becomes a bent three big eye and dies. RexWalters: This is especially important if White has one more liberty (say the marked stone is missing). In this case the squeeze play above does give White life.
Black 1 is at the wrong point; White 2 lives.
Of course, black still has to win the ko fight, or it was all for naught...
This is a copy of the living page "Beginner Exercise 5 Solution" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |