Grauniad:
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/23/b10ee9da2df78b018c4f75194e170aa5.png)
Black to move: 6 at 3, 8 at 1
Alive if Black to move.
Dead if White to move, starting with
.
Andre Engels: In your sequence, if White answers
at
, Black is dead. Therefore I think Black should start at
, as below, leading to ko.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/0/9a89f1551551ae25ce2892f71dcfe7f2.png)
Ko
If White answers
at
, Grauniad's sequence gives Black life, so White would do best to connect at
, and fight a ko with
and
.
If it's White's move, there are plenty of moves that kill Black. My own preference would be to play White a or b, since they have most influence on the outside.