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February 1996's Go Answer of the Month

Dia 1 - White to play and kill Black cleanly - No kos or sekis.

This is an ancient problem and is rated as quite hard. I've been working on it all month and I still haven't come up with the "solution".

I originally came across it at Canterbury 1992 where Matthew MacFadyen was offering it for contemplation.

Dia 2 - Many White attacks fail.

  10 at .

This 2-3 point attack lets Black live with two eyes.

Dia 3 - Another failure.

This one is a ko.

Dia 4 - I thought I had it solved...

I couldn't find any black moves that countered this White 1. I was happy that I had solved it until I spoke to Matthew M.

Dia 5 - Black 2 is strong.

I have yet to solve the problem with Black 2 as the reply. They all seem to lead to live black groups and sekis.

Hmm. I'll have to keep working on it.

Investigation of this continues in August's problem.
I have also written a series of articles based on this problem in the British Go Journal numbers 105 to 108.

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