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Belly Attachment
White to play and capture the two black stones that cut off the two white stones.
The belly attachment does the trick
After the continuation to 7, White has 4 liberties and Black 3[1].
If Black fills outside liberties first, he loses the semeai too.
White 1 is ZokuSuji: the crude move which doesn't work. The best result she can get now is ko.
White protects at 3 and loses time in the semeai. Her stones are captured.
Persevere with 3 makes it ko. The ko is very disadvantegeous for White. There is no need to make it ko if you can win unconditionally. [1] (It is a Type 1 fight: the side with more external liberties is the favourite; the favourite kills the underdog - Richard Hunter's theory on CountingLiberties). This is a copy of the living page "Belly Attachment" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |