Variations of Our Solution (II)
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Black's group has eight liberties (4 * c, 2 * b, j, k), and so Back cannot occupy another shared liberty c, because he would suffer from the Punishment Semeai thereafter. His only option left is to connect the hanezeki's tail with a move at |

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, but he has to do so at a moment, when White's centre group has six liberties left. Black's connected group in the lower right will have five effective liberties only, so Black will lose this semeai outright.
