Practicing Reading Out Ladders

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In the book Lessons In the Fundamentals of Go Kageyama advises to practice reading out ladders stone by stone.

I would like to create some practice diagrams which are starting off gently and small, advancing towards more difficult diagrams.

OneEye

[Diagram]

Reading practice 3


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Reading practice 4

It's easy to find the first and all other white moves to capture the marked black stones. But read it out. (Is the diagram correct?)

From the cover of The Treasure Chest Enigma by Nakayama Noriyuki.

Solution

unkx80: Reading practice 4 is identical to Valentine's Day Problem.


Echtelion
a position I studied in my club :

[Diagram]

Reading practice 5

Should this be white to move, I assume?


Solutions (but you should have read them out yourself first, of course)


See also: OngoingGame2 - Move 174


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