Variations of Our Solution (Ib)
KataGo's 2021 Solution
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: Capturing White's five stones in the upper left might be tempting, but is smaller than it looks like. White will be able to overcompensate for her loss by devasting Black's lower left corner, e.g. with . Most important, White would not have taken her centre group an own liberty (by connecting at ). This implies that Black's option for entering the Central Semeai would have been erased by himself. : | |
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: : : Otherwise, Black would connect there, and capture White's centre group thereafter, so winning the game by a large margin. | |
Capture Variation: Compared to the superordinate variation, ...
In total, gains and losses compensate for each other. White + 1 => White + 1 | |