: ( 227)
Before defending with , White plays the territory reducing kikashi in the top left corner.
It seems to us that it is possible for White to play these kikashi just now; but White will have an easier, und more uncomplicated, journey to victory if she does without. For more detailed explanation, please refer to FLAG 12 ( 1071) in the theory chapter.

: (A 288)
White wants to win unconditionally here, so she lives with her group on the upper edge, and Black large group in the upper right must get a second eye.

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Despite strengthened Black's position in the upper left, and hurt White's eye shape to some extend, White should now revert to the ko variation with a move at , instead, if she really wanted to win the game.

White cannot play at first. After Black secures life for his group with , White must return to , otherwise Black will reduce her group to only one eye. Thereafter Black can save his group on the left side, with a move at . In this case, there would be no need for Black to use the Nakade Sequence to reduce White's group on the left side to only one eye, so forcing White to capture the hanezeki's tail. Black will not gain in this process, compared to saving his group.

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Compared to the reduction sequence that White started with ( 273), instead, and not two moves later, with , as in this sub-variation, Black gained two points in the upper right corner (White's stone at will be captured), and White lost one point at .

Black will win by two points now.