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Beginner Exercise 89 Solution
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Problem

[Diagram]
White dies

If White pushes at a, Black responds at b.

This is my first solution, hope I got it right... -phooky

lavalyn: Excellent work. Except that Black need not respond to a or b - either play by White and she dies in gote. Notice that to capture the three black stones requires both a and b - at which point she has only one liberty left. Thus White dies in shortage of liberties.

demetria wonders: Wouldn't white be more likely to respond with W2 at B3. Also wouldn't black answer the original W2 by setting up the ko first?


[Diagram]
How about this?

I think this is a reasonable response that would leave white with only false eyes. White might be able to live with a very small eye if it takes B5 first, but it looks like there'd be too little to gain.


[Diagram]
No.

B1 is atari.




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