Grauniad:
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/7/4e1dd4de29d6def6c7ddec9cd3f76806.png)
Black to move: 6 at 3, 8 at 1
Alive if Black to move.
Dead if White to move, starting with
.
Andre Engels: In your sequence, if White answers
at
, Black is dead. Therefore I think Black should start at
, as below, leading to ko.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/48/f10ecefac980a164aa6aa1d9ce2ed11b.png)
Ko
If White answers
at
, Grauniad's sequence gives Black life, so White would do best to connect at
, and fight a ko with
and
.
If it's White's move, there are plenty of moves that kill Black. My own preference would be to play White a or b, since they have most influence on the outside.