Real life tsumego

Written by alejo on April 7th, 2009

This is a real situation which came up in one of my games:

As you can see, white threatens to make an eye around O4 and around T5. Actually we both thought that white was going to die and so it did during the real game.

W1 tries to move the vital point,  B2 plays in the new vital point, W3 makes an atari at the two black stones, threatening to make an eye at O4. Unfortunatelly, I thought I could play some sort of eye stealing tesuji by playing at Q3 after white plays Q2; having realised it was impossible I had to retreat myself and play at Q1, which happened to be sente and allowed me to play T3, thus removing the eyespace.

Afterwards, during the review, we realised there was a path which would have led white to a secured life… Can you find it?

In fact, it’s easier that it seems… so I’ll upload the sequence and some variations on the next post

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4 Comments to “Real life tsumego”

1. Posted by gwen, April 9th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

White T4 works very simply ^^

White 1 and Black 2 is bad because White has to defend at 8 and ends gote

2. Posted by alejo, April 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

Well…
It wasn’t too difficult, I guess…
During the actual game we focused in discussing if white could live after w1. It was long before we realised w1 was wrong…

3. Posted by Alejo, April 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am

Well, since you’ve solved the tsumego (something I didn’t expect at all), I guess uploading the sgf file doesn’t make much sense…

4. Posted by Crelo, July 8th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

It is somehow funny but white is alive even after your sequence. After black 8 at T3 white can continue with w R1, b S1, w T2, b T1, w T6 and white can capture three stones including 2 and 8 due damezumari. This makes a second eye. It is important to know that capturin three stones on the side gives an eye.

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