Beginner Exercise 205 / Solution

Nothing fancy...  

There's nothing fancy to do here. If Black simply connects with , there is no way for white to save her 5 stones, and thus her group.

• a is self-atari
• b is met by a to give black 2 liberties to white's 1,
• c is met by d or a to capture.

Fancy but wrong  

If you have done a fair amount of problems solving, the diagonal move at may come to mind. However, when White captures two stones with , she has enough liberties to capture at a next.