Variations of Our Solution (II)
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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 |

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, instead, will not lead to success, as we have already seen earlier (
successfully needed the solid connection of
as answer to Black's kikashi in the bamboo joint (
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, 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 
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, instead. However, counter-intuitively Black would be overdoing things with this aggressive measure.
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