Variations of Our Solution (II)
VAR (C) (B) (A)
: ( 347) 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 , 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. | |