Middle-Game Problem

British Go Journal No. 65. July 1985. Page 12.

Francis Roads

The position in this diagram occurred in a three stone handicap game in NOT the Challengers League. White plays the 1-2 exchange as a ladder break, and then pulls out his ladder with 3. Black could, and should, have captured the ladder stone earlier.

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What should Black do now?

[Start] Answer on page 29.

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