Gote seki / solution 1

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Unless White is komaster, Black to play can normally make seki with gote.

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Gote seki  
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White komaster, ko  

If White is komaster, she can make ko and win it, for 5 points of territory, in exchange for a Black play elsewhere.

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White komaster, no ko  

Normally Black should make this play early, when a Black play elsewhere would gain more than 2½ points, so that even if White is komaster White cannot afford to make and win the ko.

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Tenuki is wrong  

This is no seki, it's bent four in the corner.


Gote seki / solution 1 last edited by RobertPauli on January 19, 2018 - 13:55
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