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Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume 3 problem 21
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:28 am
by PeterPeter
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[go]$$Bc
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Black to play and win the capturing race.
A is given as the solution, but what is wrong with B?
Re: Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume 3 problem 21
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:57 am
by CnP
I think it's because if black 1, then white 2
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[go]$$Bc
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with one possible continuation leading to a ko
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[go]$$Bc
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I could be wrong though and missing some killer sequence.
Thanks for posting the question though btw.
Re: Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume 3 problem 21
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:08 am
by 1/7,000,000,000
If white 2 then black captures f19.
Re: Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume 3 problem 21
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:48 am
by RBerenguel
PeterPeter wrote:$$Bc
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[go]$$Bc
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$$ | . . . O O X O b X X . .
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Black to play and win the capturing race.
A is given as the solution, but what is wrong with B?
I'm not thinking very clearly today (it's incredible how under-sleeping prevents my tsumego reading), but if b, what it white just takes? Seems to be a ko for B to lose after that
Re: Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume 3 problem 21
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:34 am
by rat4000
Nope:
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[go]$$Bc
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$$ | . . O . 4 O X 2 5 3 . .
$$ | . . O X X X O O O X . .
$$ | . . . O O X O 1 X X . .
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Looks like CnP's two-step ko is the best white gets. Still better than just losing though
Re: Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume 3 problem 21
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:41 am
by RBerenguel
rat4000 wrote:Nope:
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[go]$$Bc
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$$ | . . O . 4 O X 2 5 3 . .
$$ | . . O X X X O O O X . .
$$ | . . . O O X O 1 X X . .
$$ | . . . , . X O X . , . .
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Looks like CnP's two-step ko is the best white gets. Still better than just losing though
Right, I got up to here in some variation, but everything felt too blurry this morning