:: Igo Hatsuyôron 120 (2021)

Variations of Our Solution (IIIb)

Tricking KataGo (Triple-Ko)

VAR (C) (A) (.2)

: ( 222jd)
Black destroys White's potential second eye that she would achieve by occupying this point.

Please note that this move loses two tempi in the Main Semeai, so Black has to set his hopes on a semeai with White's centre group now.

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White forces at the top, threatening to build her second eye there.

; :
Black keeps White at only one eye.

As in the previous subvariation, Black cannot set his hopes in fighting Joachim's Ko-Semeai, starting with the cut at .

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White connects her single stone, leaving Black eyeless. This is me-ari-me-nashi again.

White will win the game by a large margin.

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