Beginners Endgame Exercise 1 / Miai Value
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Black first
is gote:
is sente and White can play it any time
Let's fix the count at 4 here
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White first - Black's basic answer
is sente as it can revive he 4 stones
After
, White can play sente again with
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/6/52aefb171f2403febf691efac306ef70.png)
White gote
Then
-
-
is gote and the count is 0
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/29/d94005bb81c29a1bbfa6cb0e898eed23.png)
Black sente
turning here is sente because next it would make more in the follow up than it makes here.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/35/57339a5e984b5e9a017949817487c1de.png)
Black's follow up
If
is allowed to capture here, then after
and
at
, Black makes another 4 points. If White omits
, then Black can destroy at least another 2 points.
Hence this is the eventual count of White going first: 1
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White first - Black's tesuji
After this exchange the count is fixed: a, b and c are all dame and the count is 1.
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White first - Charles' move
Since Black can next answer a with b, this variation too leads to a count of 1
Hence the value tree looks like this
1 (3)
/ \
4 (1) 1
/ \
5 4
and White is a 3 point sente move, Black being a 3 point reverse sente