Beginner Exercise 21 / Solution

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White escapes!

Black is caught in a connect-and-die. If Black a, White b captures. Otherwise, White captures at a, and is connected to the outside and escapes, thus living (by tsumego convention).

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White failure

The double atari is wrong here: Black chooses which group to sacrifice, preventing White from connecting and escaping. Note the the bottom row of four is good for at most one eye. After White captures (perforce: if White tries to start making an eye below, Black will capture and White only gets one eye), Black reduces that to no eyes with the double hane:

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White failure (con't)

This shows that White has only the one eye.


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