Beginner Exercise 209 / Solution

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Solution

B1 makes a straight three. If W2 makes a nakade, then B3 makes W4 and B5 miai. After B5, Black connects to the outside stone and escapes, and by conventions in life and death, is considered successful.

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Solution

In real games, W2 should be satisfied by capturing the stone at the side. Then B3 lives.

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Pointless sacrifice

B1 here also lives, but is pointless. White can capture it from outside.



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