Do I read this correctly (Life and Death)

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Do I read this correctly (Life and Death)

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(Perhaps a bad title, and perhaps a bad placement)
So I was looking through my phone photos and found this sitiuation (this is only bart of it but still)
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$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . O X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . O O X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . Q X X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | a . P X . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | P P P X X X . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | P X X O O X X . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | X X . O . O X . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | X . X O O O X . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]
(The wall continued up. This was a handicap game where I had a big one as most of them)

If it is Blacks turn, playing A would kill the X marked stones and depending on answer also the triangle. (He could save that by taking the ataried black stone while the other four stones are lost?

Am I reading this correctly?

I did play wrong however as it ended in one giant section beeing in Seki in the lower left corner.
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Re: Do I read this correctly (Life and Death)

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It would also kill the white group too. :)
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Re: Do I read this correctly (Life and Death)

Post by Drew »

virre wrote: If it is Blacks turn, playing A would kill the X marked stones and depending on answer also the triangle. (He could save that by taking the ataried black stone while the other four stones are lost?

Am I reading this correctly?
Yes. This is variously called Oiotoshi, or Connect and Die, or 接不归.
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