Beginner Exercise 62 / Solution

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Solution

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Solution

Black is threatening to destroy the eye with a or b. W1 is a good shape, sometimes called the table shape, to defend against both threats.

unkx80: Sometimes good feeling is important in life and death situations. Often good feeling can help one in making the correct choices, such as W1 in this diagram. But this feeling needs to be cultivated.

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White is safe

B2 is easily captured. This position can occur with a different move order - B4, W5, B2, and W3.

Of course, if there were a stone (black or white) at a, this defence wouldn't work because B4 would be atari.

Now, Black's attempts at falsifying the eye all fail.

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Left cut (B3 at black+circle)

B3 throw-in at black+circle is met by W4.

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Right cut (B3 at black+circle)

Quite similar (beware, W2 at W4 is a blunder!).


Failures

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Failure 1

Just trying to create eye space doesn't work - B2 makes the eye false. W1 at a is similarly met.

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Failure 2

W1 doesn't prevent B2.



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