Variations of Our Solution (II)
VAR (C) (B) (C)
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: (86 261; C 264) If White plays at , instead, Black cannot connect at ; otherwise, he would lose the Punishment Semeai. However, Black will continue with the guzumi of , and win the Capture Variation by five points. Compared to White's move at , White loses an additional three points by Black's guzumi, and another point of territory by her move at itself. |
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: This result implies that Black can enforce an "early" start of the ko-fight even with the main line of Joachim's Ko-Semeai, if White had not pre-empted Black's blocking move of (= ) in the top left corner. | |