First let's solve the puzzle with an XY Chain :
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| 3 8 6 |a79 27 29 | 1 4 5 |
| 7 4 5 | 6 8 1 | 9 2 3 |
| 2 9 1 | 3 4 5 | 6 7 8 |
|---------+-----------+-------|
| 1 5 c38 |b78 37 4 | 2 9 6 |
| 4 2 d39 | 1-9 13 6 | 8 5 7 |
| 6 7 89 | 589 25 29 | 4 3 1 |
|---------+-----------+-------|
| 8 1 7 | 2 9 3 | 5 6 4 |
| 9 6 4 | 15 15 7 | 3 8 2 |
| 5 3 2 | 4 6 8 | 7 1 9 |
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XY Chain Length 4: (9=7) r1c4 - (7=8) r4c4 - (8=3) r4c3 - (3=9) r5c3 => - 9 r5c4; stte
This isn't in the language of templates, but let's see if we can talk it through that way, because the number of template patterns is small near the end of the solution.
If 9 is in r1c4, r5c4 <> 4.
If 9 is in r1c6, r1c4 = 7 and r6c6 <> 9, so 9 could be in r6c34. Now there are just 2 patterns for 8, an X Wing in r46c34. Similarly there just 2 patterns for 7, an X Wing in r14c45.
If r4c3 and r6c4 are both 8, r4c4 = 7, but that can't happen because of the 7 X Wing. So if r1c6 is 9, r6c4 = 9 and r5c4 <> 9.
So for any position of 9 in Row 1 r5c4 <> 9, which solves the puzzle as the XY chain shows.
So this looks like it is in 3 template, digits 9, 8 and 7.
Leren