Which white stone(s) are you targeting?
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The description on that puzzle is terrible. It wants you to prevent the single white stone from connecting, not splitting the two sets of 3 stones.
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I think it’s worded that way so you have to figure out not just how to target the stone, but also so you have to figure out what to target.
I would agree if this wasn’t one of the beginner puzzles in the learn-to-play series.
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I don’t see the issue? Part of learning to play is learning what to go after, and I don’t think identifying the right stone here is an intermediate or advanced skill.
The title of the puzzle gives you half the answer. They key word is “Atari”, which means you have to threaten the capture of the stone. In this case, you have to surround the cutting white stone from all four sides except one. The key idea here is that you have to capture the white stone on the second line from the right that is cutting your two disconnected groups of black stones, after you make the first move “Atari”.
These are examples of Ataris that threaten the capture of a stone:
(Your solution should look similar to the middle shape in this picture)
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A better description of the puzzle would be just: capture one or more white stones.
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Should we even go after that stone if that’s the board position? One stone seems too small.
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This is where the wonderful intuition of a beginner (no joke) will push him away from the expected answer.
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I didn’t necessarily mean figure out the best move for the game. I just think it’s useful to develop the habit of seeing something doesn’t work and then attempting something else.
But, having thought about it some more, I think I’ve come around to the view that this kind of confusion might be detrimental to the lesson a beginner is trying to learn.
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You can ask a beginner to play the biggest move even if his fighting skills are at level 0. You can’t ask him to read sequences.
basically capture the white stone at H5
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Yes, it worked. I just put black in H6, after that white respond with G6 and I capture in I5… It was very different from the previous puzzles on the same topic.
Yeah… I didn’t realise it was just that
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