Kyu Exercise 58 / Failure

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Failure

It is obvious that a Black move at W1 makes two eyes and lives, but a White move at W1 fails.

The reason is that after W1, Black has 10 liberties (note that a six-space big eye has 12 liberties) and White has only 7 liberties. Effectively, White dies in gote.



See the solution.


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