BeginnerExercise88/Attempts

Black first to live  

KarlKnechtel: This is the best I can do right now... Black already has one eye, and the only plausible way to make a second is by capturing. is a natural way to start - anything other than allows at two to capture something and make the eye.

Black first to live  

is double atari, and connecting still leaves White in atari. So White elects to save the larger group of stones here.

Black first to live  

plays atari again, starting a ko. If White chooses to connect instead (at ), puts the pressure back on.

Black first to live  

is the key. White has no choice but to connect at . Then, gets the second eye because of the cutting point at a.

White can't destroy the eye  

With the sequence up to , Black captures White's group.

Gabriel: Suppose was played at . What then?

Nevermind, just saw White would be in atari.

alive  

So, White must connect and Black then ensures life.

black kills?  

Actually, B is dead in gote, being unable to fill the circled point. B fills, W fills, B can't atari while W can.