I just started reading "Go by example: Correcting common mistakes in double digit kyu play" by Neil Moffatt and I ran into an example that doesn't make sense to me.
It's in the section "Defer capture until forced!". Here's the setup:
White has made a simple mistake, trying to save her stones with
and now black will get the whole group.The question is where should black play next? The book explains that this is a common mistake for black:
Which allows white to live in the corner. Instead black should be ignore the already dead white group and attack the corner:
To capture the triangled stones and the entire corner.
But I don't understand how this is safe for black. It looks like this will allow white to escape:
At this point black cannot save his 2 triangled stones and it looks like white can escape. Shouldn't black have atari-ed the large group to avoid this? Or is there some better play for black? Reason that this escape plan doesn't succeed?
After looking at this for a bit I guess black could play like this:
But at this point it looks like white 12 (or even a) could connect up to the right side group:
