Beginner Exercise 31 / Solution

Solution  

The marked stones are going to be captured - use them now. forces and destroys an eye there. Then makes another eye false. Black has only one eye in the center. This is rather a "Recognizing an Eye" practice than a life and death problem.

Failure 1  

first is a mistake - Black immediately captures the marked stones and the eye at a survives.

Failure 2  

Most other tries, for example here, are met by .