GokyoShumyoSection6Problem70/Attempts

[Diagram]

Black to play and connect underneath

Symplicity (2k): B1 jumps to mind as a shape point, defending the cut at A and threatening simultaneously to connect under and pull out the stone at B. Unfortunately, if White responds with 2, cutting white at B does not immediately work:

[Diagram]

Oops

[Diagram]

Attempt

So perhaps the trick is to eat up some of White's liberties by exchanging something like B1 for W2, or A, since now B5 is atari.

[Diagram]

Attempt

Same here.

[Diagram]

Attempt

If white captures here instead, B3 seems to link everything up, although Black may have to sacrifice his marked stones to maintain the connection.

Any refutations, or is this the solution?


This is a copy of the living page "GokyoShumyoSection6Problem70/Attempts" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2009 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About