BQM 571

   

Black has just played 1 in the diagram, White tenuki. White (much stronger player) assures me that Black can kill.

[Diagram]

Black to play and kill.


Andy: Black can think about starting with the monkey jump to reduce white's eyespace.

ThorAvaTahr: Good suggestion. For killing purposes the small monkey jump is usually a little bit better (but depends on the circumstances ofcourse). It is because than black is more flexible to sacrifice black+circle, it does not give white an eyeshape when black+circle is captured.

Lets have a look at some variations.

[Diagram]

Black to play and kill.

[Diagram]

Black to play and kill.

Now A and B are miai, white lives in this sequence. (Note that B3 is necessary because if white plays there the capture of B1 results in an eye)

[Diagram]

Black to play and kill.

Here sacrificing B1 does not give white an eye. But white's shape is so large that it lives (by the grace of its outside liberties).

[Diagram]

Black to play and kill. 9 @ 2

In this case white live as well

From this short survey I would conclude white lives, but surely I could mis a variation.


[Diagram]

Black to play and kill.

unkx80: I thought that this is the "standard" problem. The original problem seemed too wide to kill.


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