Beginner Exercise 105 / Solution

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Solution

B1 is the decisive counter blow. White tries to keep Black separated, since otherwise the purpose of the original moves is defeated...

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... but now White is caught in a ladder.

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White backs down

White should give up the cutting stones - though the game is already winning for Black.

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Weaker

B1 ko capture is a double atari, but White can keep the cutting stones by sacrificing the other two.


KarlKnechtel: This looks like too perfect a setup to have come from a real game. Having realized what must have happened... pretty and yet grotesque in a way ;)



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