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.

• White a or b is met by c (or d snapback) to capture White.
• White c is self-atari.

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.