Note: This line of play is usually not best for White. It is for demonstration purposes. An eight point eye is not enough to guarantee life.
Usually a is better for White than . Often it is right for Black to tenuki instead of playing at
.
-- Bill Spight
Hmm, it looks to me like black can get a seki after (
at
):
Alternately:
Which is a way to get to Seki inside the bulky five, although it involves a 1-point mistake by White.
Presumably the seki is normally preferable to the ko for Black.
-- Evand
Bill: Oops! I analyzed this 9 years ago and had forgotten the niceties.
Here is the main line:
White makes mannenko
TJ Not sure if that one works, but I was working this up while Evand was editing...
Immediately re-edited and removed another diagram where black's play gets himself killed instead of a seki. The remaining one still looks good, though, no?
Bill: Black is dead.