Beginner Exercise 208 / Solution

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Solution

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Black lives

Descending at B1 is the correct solution. a and b are miai for life.

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White attacks

If W2 tries to remove the eye, then B3 and B5 captures three stones and makes the eye.

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continued

a and b are miai for the second eye.

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White defends

If W2 connects, B3 lives. This should be what is played in real games.


Failure

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Failure (W4 at marked stone)

If B1, then W2 destroys the eye. Capturing at B3 only allows W4 to kill by a throw-in that leads to a false eye. B1 at B3 is killed in a similar way.



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