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BQM 61
Path: BigQuestionMark · Prev: BQM60 · Next: BQM62
Keywords: Life & Death, Question
I received the following question about the carpenter's square and forward it to SL while I'm thinking about it myself.
White 1 is said to be incorrect because it allows Black to live in seki.
After this position two variations arise: a and b.
After 2, Black's seven-space big eye space is of living kind. White can't make an eye in it, and neither can she almost fill with a killing shape. So far so good.
The second variation as given in the book of my correspondent is this one.
Now, Black throws in and then the book says something like White must connect at a and Black captures at b: White can't play c because of shortage of liberties. So Black lives. However, ...
White simply captures a stone, letting Black cut her stones. Next, she fills a Black liberty. Black is dead. ... But I think I found it already.
Yes. This is a position that is often given as a life-and-death problem, and 1 is the correct answer. --Tim Hunt Path: BigQuestionMark · Prev: BQM60 · Next: BQM62 This is a copy of the living page "BQM 61" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |