BQM 447

status?  

A life and death problem from one of my games in the game White lived (I had black)

But is that due to my bad play or could it be killed?

Black Plays First

dead  

fractic: Black can easily kill with . is actually dying in gote because the are miai.

ThorAvaTahr: Black's strategy here (or in any other life and death problem) is to first reduce the space where white can make eyes and later (if necessary) do a placement on the vital point of the group.

elsewhere  

ThorAvaTahr: White cannot make two eyes here

elsewhere  

ThorAvaTahr: Same here: white cannot make two eyes

White Plays First

Dead afterall  

willemien But now White having the first move

fractic: I just glanced the first time because I thought you were asking if Black could kill. But now that I've taken a longer look it looks like White was already dead.