Joseki-related life-and-death example 9

    Keywords: Joseki, Life & Death
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White to play

White's to play. Both should keep the J-group in mind when playing here.


Failure: life

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Failure


Success: ko

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Success

B4 turns the corner status into ko. See J-group for more detail.


Variation: death

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Variation

If B2 makes a diagonal move, then W3 to W9 is a standard killing sequence.

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Variation

This B6 seems to work at first glance, but this W7 makes short work of it up to the throw-in at W9.


Failure: dangerous ko

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Failure

White is first to take this ko but loses a lot when she loses the ko.


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