Variations of the Professional Solution
VARP (D)
: ( 738a) : ( 109 738h) : : ( 109 738g) : : (109 738f) Quite surprisingly, Black must not follow the "usual" course of the endgame by connecting at in the top left corner any longer. |
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: She will lose the game by playing at , instead, immediately destroying Black's second eye for his large group at the upper right. |
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: (124 738e) : |
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///: The comparison of the final positions in the left half of the board (Professional Solution at the left) shows:
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The comparison of the final positions in the right half of the board (Professional Solution at the left) shows:
In total, White is three points better than in the main line of the Professional Solution. White wins by three points. |
The outcome of the game (in the case that Black has captured two White stones in the upper right, but did not get a second eye) depends only on the development in the upper left corner that can be considered to be independent from the mutual occupation of liberties in the Main Semeai thereafter.
Black needs a surplus of seven points in that area for reaching a jigo. |
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