Joseki-related life-and-death example 11
Keywords: Joseki, Life & Death
If the corner group later gets surrounded (
stones to indicate this), and the top side is white (
stones to indicate this) the moves
-
are sente.
If black plays tenuki after
, how can white kill?
and
are not hard to find, but the tesuji sequence of
-
is quite nice.
Now black can try a number of things.
attempts to create liberties along the top, to prevent white from cutting at a.
But still, after
-
, a bulky five is formed. Black is dead (Note that black should not be able to make eyes along the top, hence the requirement of the
stones.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/36/4060d17f1c1258c9bd5670fda34f9709.png)
-
are joseki.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/13/2d3a9f41ec9acca6a57a37efd811da46.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/48/c0f118b7fd9a987319bd68df717c2f0a.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/30/bfd278b616f295ba2e2e88ec32b202fd.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/37/a6e3599294bd7e1104368ddfc83c3ff3.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/4/f5ab2db2edb3820004ac8ad0015d9ccf.png)
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to prevent the bulky five,
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