lightvector wrote:
If black's life is supposed to depend on the ability to poke an eye at J1 (even in gote), is there some reason why white can't just atari at J1 first to secure the eye, and then play this monkey jump?
Nope.
Only reason I hadn't included it is because I started doing the L&D very locally. Only by making the .sgf for posting it here, I noticed the additional parameter of black being in liberty shortage there, expanding the L&D question. So actually with this fact I think black is dead. If black didn't have a liberty shortage there, I think he's alive. I'm not certain, though