❤ PUZZLES: A tsumego a day keeps the doctor away


White to play.

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Black to play.

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Black to play.

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White to play.

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Black to play.

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Black to play.

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Black to play.

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Black to play.

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I just noticed a funny thing in the puzzles tool. You can get a variation wrong but then if you reach the same correct result, you’re still rewarded. That’s something easy to reproduce with the last problem

LOL.
If you just ignore the red incorrect-sign for several moves (and use the right moves in an incorrect order), but finish the puzzle correctly, you suddenly get the green correct-sign.
Crazy.

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Yeah that’s what I am saying

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It happened to me with the first one. :smile:

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Weekend. You all worked hard this week. So three not too difficult problems.


Easy. You should be able to do this one blindfolded, standing with one foot in a bucket of concrete, smoking your last cigarette in front of a firing squad Easy, easy, easy.
Black to play.

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This one is a bit harder, but it is such a cutie.
Black to play.

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Black to play.
And certainly a surprising first move.

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Done, that was too quick.
But a surprise the red didn’t turn green this time (third problem) go understand the mysteries of OGS puzzles management.

Okay. :crazy_face:

Two easy ones and two difficult ones (that may cause you sleepless nights and grey hairs). Black to play (except for the last one, where White starts).


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Today’s puzzles are from puzzle collections I entered some time ago, but haven’t received the attention they deserve.


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And finally a beauty I entered into OGS Puzzles yesterday morning.
Hint: you start with a nonsensical move.

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Today I focus on @Bezlikii_Go’s puzzle collection Life and Death: 1000 Problems (by Wang Zhipeng). I think this is an inetresting collection, so I selected 5 problems (all of them Black to play).

All of the puzzles in this collection are rated 12 kyu, which coincidentally is also the default ranking in the OGS Puzzles program. So I think that the puzzlesn are not rated by the author of this collection. Not really a problem, there are a lot of 12 kyu (unrated mostly) collections.

In a few reviews about this collection was rated as "for strong SDKs and dan". This confused me. I tried some of the puzzles and didn’t have much troubles solving them. And believe me I am not a strong SDK (not even always a SDK, but regularly dropping to DDK). For what it is worth. Enjoy the puzzles.


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I have this book myself, and it isn’t organized by difficulty, but categories, make living, break eyes, seki, vital points, ko, etc. And that’s only for the 1st volume, the 2nd volume is less about tsumego, but some common tesuji moves.

My impression is that some of them, especially the final category the “interesting questions” of volume 1 are certainly not for SDK, and some might not even have clear answers (the answers in the book only show some variations)

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This is considered one of the more difficult ones with variations still not fully explored
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And the answers from the book (there are two) are probably not the best options.

interactive puzzle with some of the variations

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Link seems to be broken for the interactive puzzle.

Forget to change it to not private. I only put some variations in, most points don’t have variations. Way too many intersections…

Black to start.


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All puzzles: white to play. The first three puzzles are 10 kyu-ish, the last three are 1 kyu-ish. Enjoy the fun.


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I’d say
pb1 20k
pb 2&3&4 10k
pb 5&6 1k

Thanks for the feedback.
This rating was provided by the author of the puzzles.

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