Joseki-related life-and-death example 9
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/30/83052fabcea7437fcea65dbc073fddbb.png)
White to play
White's to play. Both should keep the J-group in mind when playing here.
Failure: life
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/42/fb6e02386c1ed85fd5fcc6dd25e5672d.png)
Failure
Success: ko
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/50/2e82f9c2452975d5b9e5bb1d09dfb064.png)
Success
turns the corner status into ko. See J-group for more detail.
Variation: death
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/49/aba9bd7e4af09f94f1d3dab7290ee4af.png)
Variation
If
makes a diagonal move, then
to
is a standard killing sequence.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/35/a47344eedc00eda8ff121d069eab4437.png)
Variation
This
seems to work at first glance, but this
makes short work of it up to the throw-in at
.
Failure: dangerous ko
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/30/bd1daab4b60341a652be069b7ea81adf.png)
Failure
White is first to take this ko but loses a lot when she loses the ko.