Beginner Exercise 123 / Solution
The status is unsettled - Black playing first can kill while White playing first can live.
Black to play
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/36/e63d9598f0e932253dc82ff473936be8.png)
Black first
is killing:
prevents the connection, but then
is atari, destroying the eye at a.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/51/4b6bf50908cff145b8edffda66eae7e7.png)
Black failure
allows a ko for life.
White to play
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/42/6182a1ad2e23b15dbeaf2efc27fcf0cd.png)
White first
lives.
at a or b also lives, but with less territory.