Beginner Exercise 233 / Solution

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Black lives.

B1 catches three white stones in a connect-and-die. (If White tries to connect, Black will capture five White stones and live with an eye around B3 and an eye at W2.) So White catches two black stones in a snapback with W2, and B3 captures the three White stones.



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Black lives, cont'd.

Now a and b are miai for Black to make two eyes.



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Black failure.

Note that B1, trying to save the two black stones from snapback, is a failure. In fact, it is a good example of dying in gote. It is not even seki since White can eventually capture the four black stones on the left; if Black connects at a then White can almost fill with a bulky five and Black is still dead.


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