RTG Problem 6 / Solution

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Solution

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White to play.

The first move has to be W1 here, it seems like the vital point. It's both a peep at a and the eye-stealing tesuji in conjunction with b.

[Diagram]

B fails to connect

White has 4 liberties to 2 (maybe 3 to 2 for other placements of 1) and kills the cut stones, and with them the group.

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White steals the second eye

Now White just has to connect out, and unless Black plays a sagari, White simply pushes through.

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Black descends

And in this case, the stones are cut off and die.

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Black makes a diagonal

The diagonal at B3 is answer by W4.



Failure

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Too impatient.

W3 is too impatient. B4 to B8 lives, White merely received some endgame profit.



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