Tsumego From Games 128 / Attempts

xela: "What can black get here?" asks Dieter. My answer: a headache!

Seriously, I think it's ko. (Edit: not ko: see hhw's diagram below.)

Are there any alternatives? It looks as though white is very solid on the outside, no hope for black to break out. As far as I can see, the only way black can avoid either ko or immediate destruction is to play in the next diagram:

If white tries this , black lives because of connect-and-die. But white can do better.

Black is dead.

hhw: Here's an alternative. After , a and b are miai for White. It seems Black may want to consider .

unkx80: To hhw: here cannot save Black as well. After , a and b are miai.

JoelR: Black cannot even threaten an approach ko with . makes it connect-and-die.

Dieter: Yes, Black is dead. During the game analysis I thought B could get a ko. But when I transcribed the game, I saw what hhw writes here.

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Tsumego From Games 128 / Attempts last edited by JoelR on April 12, 2009 - 18:36

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