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Kyu Exercise 4 Solution
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Solution 1

[Diagram]
Placement on the second line.

The simpler solution would be a placement on the second line. Black 3 forces White 4, and Black 5 reduces the eye at the bottom to one in sente.


[Diagram]
Placement on the second line.

Why sente? Because if White obstinately makes the other eye with 6, Black captures White in a connect and die with 7. or easier to see, the three stones above --Dieter



Solution 2

[Diagram]
Placement on the first line.

The placement at the first line also works, but Black 3 and 5 are probably a blind spot.


[Diagram]
Variation.

If White 2 simply captures the two Black stones, Black can simply set up a snapback with 3 and 5.


[Diagram]
Failure.

Black 3 is incorrect. Although Black 5 is a ploy to reduce the eye in sente, but White 6 answers correctly and lives.


[Diagram]
Failure.

Black 9 and White 10 are miai.



Other variations

[Diagram]
Atari.

The atari at 1 is a mistake.


[Diagram]
Atari.

Black makes a throw-in at 5, but White occupies the vital point of the bulky five with 6 and lives.



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