Day #26 November 30th
5 years ago we had a 10 post discussion about the #26 series.

#26a; No, I didn't cheat

I am not sure we agree on the advanced problem.

cyclops,

Thank-you for the support jts, however I made a mistake. Simple reason:

thx for your support logan. Your solution is my first variant. So now we have 6 posts on these problems. Not too bad compared to the 10 posts 5 years ago.

You recanted too quickly, logan!

In these problems you should always look for the strongest resistance. It will be solution 99% of the time. (Exceptions can be when author says otherwise & whole board problems.) Since the rest of the board is invisible then you can consider other factors as ceteris paribus and ignore them. So in this instance, White's strongest resistance is ko.

I think the convention is that you look for the most stubborn resistance to make sure that you can refute all lines (and often the most stubborn resistance has the most interesting suji), but you certainly don't play out an inferior line because it gives you a better position in the most stubborn resistance. Connecting in sente, rather than in gote, is worth gobs and gobs of points.