Life In 19x19

I took some notes from lessons available online for corner variations for 3-3. If you are interested feel free to study it. I personally found it to be essential to know these by heart. I'm still memorizing but with some practice, I'm sure I can internalize it.

The level should be appropriate for most mid level SDKs. Anyone below that level would benefit significantly from it, I believe.

Please let me know if there are any mistakes - the notes are a bit messy since I didn't bother to pretty it up, but hopefully you find it valuable.

The two following diagrams are from Uberdude's post viewtopic.php?p=239372#p239372

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