Cutting Lantern Procession

  Difficulty: Intermediate   Keywords: MiddleGame, Tactics

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This is a side pattern.

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Lantern Procession

With support of nearby stones you can easily cut. The crosscut accomplishes the cut.

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One of the variations.

Instead of W4, a can be played, aiming for a more severe ko.

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With the marked stone present, there is also a cut.

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hane at bottom then crosscut

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extend


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extend - why is works

Exchanging W5 for B6 enables jumping out with W7, if Black tries to cut White captures some stones until W13.


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