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PGB81
Everything looks too grim for white. The game is actually lost. Two groups at the top and on the left are dead or almost dead. Black reigns in the center.
White 1 intends to sacrifice 2 stones and finish here in sente. Black 2 takes the sacrifice. It is important not because it is large but because othewise white's stones on the fight would become very thick. Yet I believe that simply finishing killing white's stones on the top was a sure win for black. White 3 continues with the sacrifice hoping that black would reply and then white will use sente to do something at the top. This hope is a part of the game. White gambles. Black 4 takes the 2 stones and white's sacrifice worked. White 5 is an atari that gets some half eyes for the group at the top. Black 6 connects (another option was to capture a stone) and white makes one more atari with 7. Black pulls out with 8 and white 9 sets up another half eye. Now killing white may be a problem. Black comes with 10 and white could live with the next move, but incouraged by sudden improvement of the situation choose not to do so. Next PGB71 This is a copy of the living page "PGB81" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |