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TaishaTobiTsuke
If the ladder works for White, (s)he can play b to keep things relatively simple. Otherwise it's off to the complicated variations with a.
HolIgor:
mgoetze: Uhm, it seems to me that
HolIgor: Yes, you are right. White can capture in gote, but black is alive in the corner, so this is just big yose.
Last chance to keep things relatively simple with a. Otherwise, b leads to the taisha five-way junction. The rest of this page will deal with a.
But maybe this is too simple for Black...
...so he could play like this instead. White Anyway, Black continues with a (soft), b (medium) or c (I will destroy you with this ko! Bwahaha!). HolIgor: There is no ko-threats in fuseki. Even if black wins the ko by allowing white to make two moves in a row somewhere else, white 3 stones are not dead yet. Black's profit is large, no doubt about it, but it is difficult to say if it is large enough. This is a dangerous ko. Dieter: Since White will take first, I think the main argument for not starting the ko is that it will be difficult for Black to find a ko-threat compensating for having rendered two stones useless. White will simply not allow Black to take back the ko. This is a copy of the living page "TaishaTobiTsuke" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |