GokyoShumyoSection4Problem22/Attempts

solution?  

xela: White can't play a without first connecting at all of b, c and d--so black is effectively ahead six liberties to five.

continuation  

xela: Note that the throw-in at is important...

Variation  

If , then creates an eye. White still needs to fill all of a, b, c, and d, to put Black in atari, so Black is still ahead in the capturing race.

Bass is silly, b could have taken the cutting stones by playing at b :-)