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Beginner Exercise 79 Solution
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Problem

[Diagram]
Black lives

splice: Black 1 lives. The points a and b are miai for the second eye. If White connects at b, saving her single stone, Black plays a. Black needs to play the point to the right of 1 to make his second eye, but White cannot take it, because she has to connect her three-stone group (damezumari). If White takes a, Black plays b, capturing the white stone and making a second eye.


[Diagram]
This works too

unkx80: Simply atari with 1 and 3, and making the second eye at 5 works too.





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