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Dropping back problem 1 Solution
Keywords: EndGame
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/12/22ee9ae45729d937218a43dbfbf135b6.png) | White connects in sente |
forces to save the corner (White can get a ko to kill it). Then White plays tenuki here.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/26/de35a87511c1f7195ec44d52c6e3af82.png) | Dropping back |
The point being that and are sente plays now, but don't break through, an example of dropping back. Nothing difficult, with in place; but you have to see it in a real game to feel the force of it.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/1/2fe28d94696b301c83a6ae855f341535.png) | Going back to the start |
Assuming this came about as a result of the play here, is required. After , can White take still take sente?
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/34/cafe7d4a66f60f5d1cd0f008625c5d21.png) | Going back to the start (continued) |
This is much more profitable for Black (next Black a and White will have to take the stones); so that in practice White may not be able to take, should play reverse sente.
In the real game the play was a bit more like an endgame tesuji.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/30/f761ceacb422144c2d76ab13de05b4da.png) | Going right back to the start |
The way the problem was set makes this / exchange first look better.
Charles Matthews
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