Various Kikashi in the Hanezeki
(2007 - 2011; 2014)
Go World's Commentary
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The Go World article says that Black loses a very important liberty if he throws-in a second time. However, we cannot follow this statement. Here, we have marked the liberties of Black's group in the upper right ( |
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After the second throw-in, the number of liberties of Black's group at top right ( Within the temporary seki (we inserted the forcing exchange of |
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In the classical line of play these two groups share two common liberties ( So, the relation between Black's, and White's, liberties remains unchanged, regardless of whether one or two throw-in have been played. |

) with the classical sequence, i.e. without second throw-in. Please note that we inserted the forcing exchange of
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, to clarify that 
-group below (in the seki), do not share common liberties.
-group, share two common liberties (
).

