Malcolm
Malcolm Schonfield's home page. I'm a 1D in france, 1D on KGS.
1: Tsumego
Here's a tsumego I was having problems with:
unkx80: I think Black should play and
. See joseki-related life-and-death example 9.
Malcolm: Thanks, the same day you gave me the solution I ended up using Thomas Wolff's GoTools tsumego program to get the answer. I had a blind spot, overlooking the double atari at 'b'.
2: Yose
Here's a yose problem I like with a nice double snap-back:
3: Nice tsumego from TrainLikeAPro
It took me ages to find this solution. I think I had a blind spot due to the following erroneous reasoning: "after 6 white has two eyes and is therefore alive. There is no need to look any further". Lesson to be learned: two eyes are sometimes not enough! Or: beware of damezumari!
4: Tsumego
Here's a nice tsumego I found in an old volume of the french go magazine RFG (n° 89, 2000), in an article by Pierre Audouard. It took me about 15 minutes this morning to solve!
5: Under the stones tsumego
Here's an under-the stones tsumego from TrainLikeAPro volume 2. It took me days to realise why "a" is wrong - another damezumari I missed.
6: Unusual tsumego from TrainLikeAPro
31-1-07 : I'm completely stumped by the following problem from TrainLikeAPro, vol. 1, day 2.
I did consider . But if
in this diagram, what else is there but
? Then, white lives with
.
unkx80: This means that I made a reading typo when suggesting in the previous diagram. Right now I see no solution to your
.
Malcolm: OK. I've updated TrainLikeAPro with this analysis. It does seem like an error in the book. Hope you don't mind me using your name. Thanks for the help.