Beginner Exercise 25 / Solution

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[Diagram]

Ah! My eye! I can't see!

B1 hits the vital point and kills the group by making miai of the kill at a or b.


[Diagram]

Only one eye

If W2, B3 prevents a second eye.

[Diagram]

Throw-in

If W4 captures, B5 still holds White to one eye.

It would do White no good to capture B5, even as a ko threat, because the resulting eye would be a false eye.

[Diagram]

Bent four - but with the two vital points occupied

And if White blocks the other direction, she still dies after B3.


[Diagram]

Black must answer W2

Alternative white response that needs to be answered.



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