cutting sake bottle shape
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Shape, Variant
How one can see, sake bottle shape can be cut, weak point is b-. But black can choose, which 2 of 3 stones to leave connected (choose 'c' or 'd' variants). Weaknesses marked as
. Cut stones marked as
.
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Another cutting (ladder-breaker required)
This kind of cutting can be caught in ladder (var. g). If white has a ladder-breaker on e--directions, then the black cut stones may need to escape, for example f-
.
Var. h can be reduced to var. g if instead of defence in will attack in
. Otherwise one stone can be cut (var. h).