InAKoreanBadukSchool/Attempts

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Benjamin's solution was quite convincing by the beauty of . Seeing might spoil the fun, hence I will moved it to /solutions.

These are illustrations of the thought process of a weaker player (me).

tderz: is wrong.

Illustration of White's Ishinoshita: White will live with 11 points.
The usual shape attacking point black+circle will not work due to the 3 liberties will have after capture (White can reply with white+square ).

tderz: Wrong :
Because there is no white stone at circle , Black is safe w.r.t. damezumari by horikomi.

The wrongly intended result from Black's view.

White could have previously exchanged for this - still to no avail.
Black takes first with a, white+circle , Black b.

I realize this has already been solved but id like to give it a try with a diffrent solution.

How about that? -- Intetsu

White plays at the point above . After black captures 5 stones, white makes a ko. -- JuhoP

Black to play...

revo: Thanks a lot for your reports, it's very interesting. I tried a little with your tsumego and I think this solves it.

If white does not capture with , black may have to capture the left part of white. Black must not capture at himself, because white can recapture with the marked stone.

If black plays at b, makes life.

Hwan Kuk Kang: Not bad!

maruseru: I got the same solution as revo. Being 9k (EGF), I thought this was rather easy. So the other tsumego (which you got as tests) were much harder?

Benjamin: Yes, I think they were much harder - maybe we can show you one from our test next time... By the way, did you understand why this move ( in variation 2) is wrong?

maruseru: Because of the continuation shown in these three diagrams, which only leads to ko?

Hmmm... at second thought, maybe this isn't a ko. White takes, and Black connects to the right of 9, leaving White with a false eye. Must think some more.

revo: I think you're right, it is ko. If black connects to the right of 9, white captures black 5 and lives.