Beginner Exercise 248 / Solution

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zinger: To directly answer the question posed: the status is, white is dead.

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nakade

Black plays tenuki. All the white stones suffer death in gote. Black's nakade (black+square) makes a dead eyespace for white. Since W1 is not solidly connected, black can force white to fill at circle by playing at square when necessary. White still can't connect to the upper wall.
Don't do this:

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wrong for black

Black snips off white's tail, in gote, but still lets most of the white stones escape.


What seems to be a solution

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another failure

W3 kills the black+square-stones, but leaves white without enough eyespace to live. What seems to be a solution

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not enough eyespace



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