The Decisive Moment in the Historical Line
of Play (2002 - 2007)
B - Capture of Black's Centre Group
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(Referenced by We present the classical Capture Variation ( |
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White here - as in the Go World article - immediately continues the semeai in the upper right with White will not exchange |
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Black: White: Result since The Semeai Variation, and the (classical) Capture Variation are of equal value. Again, the total score is Black + 2. But without Black's reduction ( |

374
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for Black
any more, because this would result in a loss of two points, when the White group containing 

) = 69 points combined.
) = 41 points combined.
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) of White's top right corner, White would have six additional points of territory (
), and win by four points.
