Don't Help Your Opponent Exercise 4 / Attempts

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unkx80: I presume you are looking for W1?

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mover? I would go like this caus the w grupes look strong enough. (im probaly wrong tho from being weak.)

Alex: I'm not sure either, but I think we're not seeing enough of the board to evaluate this move. Here's what I read out for the continuation, most of which seems forced to me.

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After which the question is whether Black can defend the group above in sente (or even needs to defend it) before coming back to play e.g. b or something lighter (depending on the bottom side situation). That, in turn, depends on the effect Black a has on White. If White is strong enough in the top left that Black's needs to reinforce in gote, then White will be able to peep at b and then attack these heavy stones... so unless I'm overlooking something (quite likely, because I have a hard time reading properly when looking at positions on a screen), your move may be reasonable.


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