Sunday Problem #24

Published 15 Nov 2020 by antti (last edited 23 Nov 2020)

While last week’s Sunday problem was from the elementary section of Maeda’s Tsumego Collection, this week’s problem is from the intermediate section.

Black to play.

Solution
Solution
The key to this problem is the non-obvious black 5. If Black captured the two stones instead, white 5 would capture the black group whole; therefore, sacrificing the three stones to the right is the best Black can do. After black 7, Black lives with a minimal shape.

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antti wrote 3 years, 4 months ago:

Solution added.