Beginner Exercise 6

  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Life & Death, Problem
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Prelude.

The reader should know by now that a White move at a makes two eyes and lives; while a Black move at a kills by reducing the White group to only one eye.

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Problem I: Black to play.

Now the outer Black stones are shifted away by one line.

Can Black kill the White group?

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Problem II: Black to play.

The outer Black stones are again shifted further away by another line.

Can Black kill the White group?


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See also the next exercise for the case where the outer Black stones are shifted away by three lines.



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