I also want to highlight this in the context of what I mentioned about the last chapter when I mentioned
I do think that some books show you a lot of things but leave it up to you to really understand why, either intuitively or through experience or thought or reflection and so on.
I guess what I mean is a comment like
is telling you what you need to know in a sense but in a very minimal way, in problem 1 say - but it’s not saying that the reason it’s kind of working - ultimately ending in a snapback - is that you’re keeping the white stones to two liberties the whole time, so there’s no time for any sort of counterplay, counter cuts anything. The only thing white can do to resist is to run and try to gain liberties but it’s doesn’t work.