Beginner Exercise 123 / Solution

The status is unsettled - Black playing first can kill while White playing first can live.

Black to play

Black first  

is killing: prevents the connection, but then is atari, destroying the eye at a.

Black failure  

allows a ko for life.

White to play

White first  

lives. at a or b also lives, but with less territory.

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