Alive
Black is alive... or more correctly, mostly alive.
White's best play
For White, is best. forms a bent four and lives, and White can play at a to capture the stones at the corner.
Weak attack
and is a weak attack, lives easily.
Black's tesuji
and is probably the strongest attempt to kill. The main thing to see in this problem is the tesuji at , which makes and miai for life.
Black's failure (9 at 7)
is wrong. White makes a placement at , followed by an atari at on the entire Black group which forces to capture, finally a throw-in at which makes the eye at the corner a false eye.
Sub-pages (up)Attempts
Referenced byKyuExercise31