A way to improve reading skills 2.0

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:32 pm

Hi sorin, Thank you.

Knotwilg · Post by **Knotwilg** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 6:53 am

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:12 am

My blitz policy network's answer:

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Spending a little more time to analyze the status of groups I also think a is rather large and probably double sente. If it's a local move I think about b rather than attach one line lower as that just prompts black to cut and then you want to both connect above and take the ko. 1 is not only an important local shape, those 2 stones do have an effect on the cutting points l9/k8 and thus the connectedness of white's 3 stones and the territory to their right.

Gomoto · Post by **Gomoto** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:27 am

Problem 7:

White to play. Think twice, the next move could be decisive:

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$B $$ --------------------------------------- $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . X X . X . . O . . . . O . . . . | $$ | . . . , O O X . X O . . . . O X X . . | $$ | . . O . . . O X . . . . . . . O X . . | $$ | . . . . . . O X . . . . . . O X X . . | $$ | . . . . . . O . . . . . . . O O O X . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X X . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . O . O . . . . . . . . . O . X . . | $$ | . . . B X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . O . O X . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . O X . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . X . X . . . . . X . . . . O . . | $$ | . . X , O . O . . O O X . . X , X . . | $$ | . . . X O . . . O . X . . . . X . . . | $$ | . . . X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 1:08 pm

Connect below, black can escape with the 2 stones but you get a nice squeeze and give a good chase northwards, and the black lower left corner isn't alive yet which could come in handy for the white group on the lower side which is also not alive (so e.g. surrounding corner could be sente plus safety for that group). So probably black shouldn't escape. Cut on lower side later as a probe, I think black can block left and double hane but the aji is bad.

Knotwilg · Post by **Knotwilg** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:51 am

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:57 am

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