Beginner Exercise 248 / Solution

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The status is: white is dead.


[Diagram]

White can capture four stones - but remains dead.

Though W1 captures four stones, it is still unconditionally dead and Black can play elsewhere. The black+square stones are nakade (they form a pyramid four) and ensure that the white group can't make two eyes.

[Diagram]

Black failure - Don't do this!

B2 is a blunder - Black captures two White stone, but lets the main body escape.



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