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Beginner Exercise 40 / Solution
Solution
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/50/61ed8fad86a728bd84a71999a8260aa1.png) | Not a marked point but it'll do. |
Threatening to capture a pivotal stone demolishes the eye that would have been formed by White playing at a.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/25/0a2ad4b87771474fd945037452f10ba7.png) | Capturing the first stone |
The points a and b are now miai to remove one eye from White's position.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/47/a4da795f11c88c3f3df79b71901a56fa.png) | White hopes for the best |
Ignoring the situation doesn't make it go away.
ProtoDeuteric- Would this be gote on white's part?
Mef: Only if white adds another stone and black doesn't respond.
ProtoDeuteric- Maybe I'm just not looking at this problem correctly. To me, black appears to concern itself with the possiblity for white to make eyes around the ponnukied stone. Would a more accurate interpretation be that and are miai, and that thus is, in fact, a response to ?
Mef: Yes, white has 2 places to make an eye, so after white makes an eye with , black destroys the other eye with , so is a local response.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/12/0f7d3b548927b2a23f5254245bfdb7e9.png) | White's strongest resistance |
White's strongest resistance is to set up a ko at and fight it. It's the only correct move for White.
Failure
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/13/f13b53f2d95bf44ca7d5580b0925dbd2.png) | Failure |
only destroys the eye on the outside, but makes the eye in the corner. and are miai for living.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/31/18916622cef45a9c23127178c5832aad.png) | Failure |
In this diagram, lives with two eyes.
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