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Direction of play and tesuji problem 006

6 Black to play The jump (tobi) 1 has its eye squarely on the three stones to the left. What to do? Is there a connection after all?

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SZ[19]
AB[eo][dp][eq][jq]
AW[dq][co][cp][dn][hq][ho]
C[6
Black to play
The jump (tobi) 1 has its eye squarely on the three stones to the left. What to do? Is there a connection after all?]
LB[ho:1]
(;B[cq]
TE[1]C[Correct answer
See the continuation]
;W[dr];B[gq];W[cr];B[hr]
C[…The cut 1 and the tobi-tsuke 3 are beautiful. Black links up. Instead of 1 Black can play at 3 straight away.]
LB[hr:5][cr:4][gq:3][dr:2][cq:1]
)
(;B[gp]
C[Almost correct answer
See the continuation]
;W[hp];B[cq];W[dr];B[cr];W[er];B[fr];W[fq];B[gq]
;W[ep];B[hr]
C[…Here Black has sacrificed quite a lot, but in principle this is energetic play too.]
)
(;B[fm]
BM[1]C[Wrong answer
The keima 1 is slack.
See the continuation]
;W[dr]
C[…After the sagari 2 Black has a long way to run. they should make use of the opponent’s weaknesses.]
LB[dr:2][fm:1]
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