emeraldemon wrote:I got B+1.5:
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Black has to spend two moves to capture, but white has to spend a move to protect on the bottom.
I think this takes more than two moves to capture. In fact black might lose the race, I didn't read it.
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it seems that White can play
below in sente. Black can not capture at
. So Black plays 12 at "a" and White connects at 12.