is maybe a little unexpected.
Up to , Black sacrifices his
stones, to secure life for his group.
White captures the stones in gote.
in this diagram is followed by the atari at
, and her stones are in shortage of liberties. This is better for Black than the main line.
Changing the order of and
gives the same result, but it doesn't invite White to make the small mistake at
in the previous diagram.
Black lives easily.
Changing the order of and
also seems to work.
If here,
makes miai of a and b.
With as here, White cannot even capture a stone, because shortage of liberties at a prevents her from making the eye false.
Black 1 does not put enough pressure on the invading group, allowing white to capture the two stones on the left. black's remaining stones have only one big eye.
Applications:
The straight J group with an outside liberty resp.
JGroups#100
Problem 29
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