:: Igo Hatsuyôron 120 (2021)

Variations of Our Solution (Ib)

KataGo's 2021 Solution

VAR (.3) (.4)

: ( 58de)
Black secures an eye in the left centre.

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White captures the nakade, in order to avoid any shortage of liberties for her three stones at the lower left edge.

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As usual, Black ends in gote.

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White stops Black from establishing any eye in the lower left corner.

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Black contiues in the left centre, but all his desperate attempts to create more than only one eye will end in vain.

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White's eye is much larger than Black's, so Black will lose the semeai with White's group at the left edge, due to his lack of outside liberties.

Even if he had, he would be unable to stop White from capturing the hanezeki's tail with a move at .

White will win the game by a very large margin.

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