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Author:  HermanHiddema [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:08 am ]
Post subject:  A gift for Willemien

For your corner shapes collection ;)

Also for others of course, as a reading exercise...

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[go]$$W Status?
$$ -------------
$$ - . . X O O .
$$ - . . X X O .
$$ - . . . X O .
$$ - . . X X O .
$$ - X X X O . .
$$ - O O O . O .
$$ - . . . . . .[/go]


Additional question: does the status depend on the number of outside liberties? If so, how?

Author:  gonut [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: A gift for Willemien

Did you know that in the old days, 20% of go players could solve 80% of tsumego problems? But nowadays, just the opposite is true. ...ahem... (Yes, my statistician jokes are even worse than my go ability.)

Anyway, with no outside liberties:



And with an outside liberty:


Author:  HermanHiddema [ Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: A gift for Willemien

Well, gonut got it completely right :)

Addition:
With at least two outside liberties, one of which can be an approach liberty, black can live without requiring double ko, which is better, because it doesn't give white unlimited ko threats. :)

The four main variations:



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