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Solution 4A By trying to hang onto W1 with this W5, White would make the
serious error of allowing B6 to enclose him, thus forcing him to try to live in the corner! But that would lead to this easy to read out in advance sequence, in which White can’t make 2 eyes, and so is dead! (If W7 at 8, B8 at 7, and White is still dead!) Instead ... |
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Solution 4B By playing this W5 to run away on the outside, White abandoned W1
as having served its purpose of forcing Black’s response, allowing Black to secure the corner. Then, in this sequence (there are feasible alternatives which lead to similar but somewhat different results), White succeeded in his real purpose of gouging out and “stealing” much of what otherwise would have been a very large Black territory. |