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Beginner Exercise 29 Solution
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Problem

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Solution

W2 at B3 or W6 is shortage of liberties, and at B5 (or elsewhere taking a black liberty) by the same B3 (connect-and-die).

W6 captures two stones, leaving equal number of liberties with Black to move...


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Solution

And W7 wins the capturing race by one move. W7 is a must.



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Alternative

Black can be even more direct - after B3 the WC stones are in a snapback.


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No snapback but White still loses

Or if White defends the snapback, B3 puts the white group into atari.



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Failure.

The atari at B1 is wrong...


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Failure, continued

...when White plays the hane at W1, Black is stuck. If Black pushes at a, he is in self-atari.



Karl Knechtel, lavalyn, Scartol




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