Life In 19x19

Ever have your opponent play a ko threat and you're like

and then you connect the ko and then you resign 3 moves later?

Here's an easy kyu tsumego that resulted from that exact situation. White to live with those middle 6 stones. It's kind of obvious, but make sure you read it out completely

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[go]$$W
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . O X X O O O O O X . O . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . X X O X X X X . O . O . |
$$ | . . . , . . X . . X O X . . . , O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . O X . X . . . O . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |[/go]

I think I know what you're after but after 7 forcing moves and answers, leaves Black in a loose ladder and White's top group has two liberties. At that point, Black can atari that group from the inside. Or there's a variation I'm missing but in any case I wouldn't call it obvious.

Knotwilg, I think you are overlooking one simple thing:

since the first problem was such a hit, here another little reading exercise from a recent game. Black to reduce white's "territory". This one should really be easy.

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[go]$$B
$$ +--------------------
$$ | . . X X O . . . . .
$$ | X X . X O X . . . .
$$ | O O X X O X X X . X
$$ | . . O , O . O . . ,
$$ | . O . . . . O . . .
$$ | . O X . . . O . . .
$$ | . . O . . . O . . .
$$ | . X O X . . O . . .
$$ | . X X O . O . O . .
$$ | . . . O . . . . . ,
$$ | . . X . . . . . . .[/go]

in any case I wouldn't call it obvious

The points is that every move is essentially forced, you just have to do the work and count the liberties carefully. Kind of like that spiral ladder problem from Kageyama's Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go: I would also consider that an easy problem, since there's no branching whatsoever. You just have to place the stones on your mental goban.