:: Igo Hatsuyôron 120 (2015)

Variations of the Professional Solution

VARP (A)

: ( 745)
White captures Black's centre group. Without knowledge of the decisive oki that will now follow, this will not affect the score (four points for Black).

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However, White uses the oki here.

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As explained later ( 781), with the moves to , White gains five points locally (/), compared to the sequence without the oki of . But destroys one point of potential White territory (), so White's advantage is reduced to four points.

The result is jigo now.

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