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Beginner Exercise 45 / Solution
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White first:
ChrisSchack: White first, I guess . . . the easy case. White lives in gote, one eye to none, with 9 points.
Robert Pauli: In real life,
AdamMarquis: Since it is a beginner exercise, should this case not also be pointed out? Black's descent to the edge after White takes the throw-in makes it so that White can't approach. The result is seki (with a sending-two-returning-one option for White).
However, White can patch up by not taking
Black first:
White just doesn't have the liberties needed anymore. (See next variant for
Confused: Here is the variant, White's still dead. White can't play at a because of a shortage of liberties.
Robert Pauli: This nice seki results should Black start with hane, blindly following the proverb "the opponent's vital point is my vital point". It features
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