Beginner Exercise 6 / Solution

Solution.  

The solution is yes, kills.

Solution.  

If here, then connects back.

Solution.  

If tries to capture , then cuts and kills. Now if White captures the stone at a...

False eye.  

... then the point is a false eye, and so White actually dies in gote. So White should not have played at a in the previous diagram after all.

Failure.  

here is a mistake. connects and lives. Note that at a is a common beginner mistake, know why?

Problem II

Solution.  

The solution is again yes, kills.

Solution.  

If tries to capture , then cuts and we are back to a situation we have just seen. Now what happens when White captures the stone with a?

Solution.  

Of course can extend first before going down for the capture at . Again, cuts...

Solution.  

After captures the and stones, makes a throw-in, again reducing this eye to a false eye. We have seen this several times already, haven't we?

Solution.  

The White moves and here does not provide any form of resistance. After , all the Black stones connects out, and now if White plays at a, then Black b simply captures.