Kyu Exercise 4 Solution
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Life & Death, Problem
Solution 1
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/42/6614674dfc1990c1ae013c5e99d8d2d9.png) | Placement on the second line. |
The simpler solution would be a placement on the second line. forces , and reduces the eye at the bottom to one in sente.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/37/21c1533a658559d6ad6b60ea2d9aa772.png) | Placement on the second line. |
Why sente? Because if White obstinately makes the other eye with , Black captures White with .
Solution 2
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/47/4227b863bf6e11511a9536d6cd92e102.png) | Placement on the first line. |
The placement at the first line also works, but and are probably a blind spot.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/28/2a3d680ac3fa5452cf9cb97b66b5fd7a.png) | Variation. |
If simply captures the two Black stones, Black can simply set up a snapback with and .
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/38/108c794e9474f8fc081485391dfd201b.png) | Failure. |
is incorrect. Although is a ploy to reduce the eye in sente, but answers correctly and lives.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/16/fd019d3032be64f1ba34802b28a8f318.png) | Failure. |
and are miai.
Other variations
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/39/b73e0d0538fa84be428dd49938b03498.png) | Atari. |
The atari at 1 is a mistake.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/42/2d69a1bf2d3fd392ad43c94ad76f7f00.png) | Atari. |
Black makes a throw-in at , but White occupies the vital point of the bulky five with and lives.
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