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Beginner Exercise 26 Solution
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Problem

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Solution.

W1 makes miai of the snapback at a and destroying the eye at b.


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Solution.

B2 offers the strongest resistance. However, W3 is atari, reducing Black's eye space in sente, and W5 kills.


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Failure.

See proverb Beginners play Atari. However, not all ataris are good. This is an example of a bad atari which should not be played. B2 connects, and now a and b are miai, so Black lives.


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Reference.

Within the space of the bent four, if Black were to play first, Black can live at B1 or a. Therefore the first move by White must be within the space of the bent four.

Wouldn't black rather live by playing at b or c instead of inside his own territory?

unkx80: Good point here, but the emphasis here is that white has to do something inside black's territory before he can even think of killing.




MemeHunter?, unkx80



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