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Attack and Defense (Elementary Go, Vol 5)

Humor & Entertainment

Ishida, Akira

James, Davies

Puzzles & Games

Kiseido

Positional Judgment: High-Speed Game Analysis

Chikun, Cho

Essential Go Proverbs is the ultimate guide to mastering the ancient game of go. Written by the author of Invincible, this book compiles a comprehensive collection of the most important go proverbs, distilled from centuries of wisdom and experience from the game's top players. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned player, these proverbs will deepen your understanding of the game and improve your play. Each proverb is accompanied by detailed explanations and examples, making it easy to apply them to your own games. With Essential Go Proverbs, you'll develop a more intuitive sense of the game and learn how to make strategic decisions with confidence. This book is an indispensable resource for any go player looking to take their game to the next level.\nWhat you will find in this book: 
* 104 proverbs with 431 examples and 258 problems in 522 pages. 
* These examples and problems will not only deepen your understanding of the proverbs but also the strategy and tactics of the game itself. 
* 45 years in the making, this is the largest and most comprehensive collection of examples and problems focussed solely on the go proverbs ever published in any language. 
* Not only does this book analyze the proverbs in detail, it also shows the relationship between one proverb to others. 
* Contains many interesting and profoundly original games in which these proverbs were applied.

Essential Go Proverbs

Power, John

In this book Otake presents 20 principles for opening play. You will find a discussion of the fundamentals of the opening and strategy. Almost a third of the book is devoted to the important topic of shape, a subject not well understood by most western Go players. Otake explains sophisticated concepts in a simple and accessible way, making the book easy to digest regardless of your playing strength. By applying these principles when you make your stategic decisions, yhou will improve you game enormously.

Opening Theory Made Easy

Otake, Hideo

Reference

Killing isolated groups or finding a way to make two eyes for them is an important technique that every go player must acquire. Positions in which you must determine whether a group is alive or dead occur in almost every game, and the player whose skill at killing a group or finding the moves that will give his own group two eyes stands the better chance of staging an upset. In fact, life and death is regarded as so important that apprentices studying to become go professionals are required to spend many hours each day solving life-and-death problems in order to improve their analytical abilities. Solving a life-and-death problem requires the reading out of the solution as well as the numerous variations and moves that the opponent may respond with. This often requires reading more than six moves deep and keeping a picture in your mind of the resulting positions of all variations. Such activity can be likened to mental weight training. Although this is first and foremost a problem book (containing 230 problems), the explanations of the main topics make it useful as an introduction to life and death and it should be accessible to players who have read an introductory go book and played a few games. Divided into three parts, the first systematically covers the basics of life and death, starting with the fundamental concept of eye space. Next, the three essential tesujis used to kill groups are introduced: the hane, the placement, and the throw-in. In another section the reader is shown when it is appropriate to expand his eye space and when he should fall back and play on a vital point. Also included are a complete explanation of the status of the bent-four-in-the-corner shape and ten-thousand-year ko. The last two sections of this part present a thorough analysis of the comb formation and the carpenter's square.

Get Strong at Life and Death (Get Strong at Go)

Bozulich, Richard

300 Life and Death Probplems: 5-kyu to 3-dan (Graded Go Problems for Dan Players, Volume 1)

Masaru Aoki

This book is a continuation of Volume Three of this series. It contains 300 joseki problems that will test and expand your understanding of josekis and your ability to deploy them effectively as part of your opening strategy. It is divided into two parts, each containing 150 problems. The first part analyzes joseki from the local perspective. In the second part, openings, taken from professional games in which the first moves of the joseki have been played, are presented. You are asked to choose the variation of the joseki that is best suited to the overall board position, so this part constitutes the study of fuseki as well as joseki. At times the correct move is not one the standard joseki moves. It can be an innovative move that is different from what is part of the standard joseki canon. In go, such moves are referred to as kiai (fighting spirit). Consequently, this book can be used as a supplement to the various joseki dictionaries. Examples from every category of joseki are presented?josekis arising from the star point, the 3?4 point, the 5?3 point, the 5?4 point, and non-standard opening points. A study of this book and its companion will expose you to nearly 600 different josekis. The key to mastering josekis is not memorization but understanding. The problems in this book focus on the key points and tesujis involved in josekis. The key points refer to the moves that involve tactical decisions. Should you go for profit on the side or build thickness and central influence on the outside? These tactical decisions come up in most joseki patterns and affect your overall strategy. Working through and reviewing these problems will give your game added depth and breadth and make you a formidable dan player. The relative difficulty of the problems is indicated by the time allowances, ranging from ‘at a glance’ to 10 minutes. In general, the shorter time limits indicate problems that call on go common sense or knowledge of style or simply your intuitive feel for go. The longer time limits are for problems that involve considerable reading, the assumption being that you are working them out through analysis rather than just retrieving the answers from memory. Although the josekis are presented in problem format, the reader should not try too hard to solve them as if they were a test of some kind. The reader should not be disappointed if he gets most of them wrong. Many of the variations presented are the product of many hours of analysis by teams of professional players, coupled with experimentation in their games. It is enough if the reader contemplates the problems for the time allotted. What the reader should expect to gain after studying the answers is exposure to new ideas and joseki innovations and how important it is to think about a joseki not only from the local result but also globally?how it relates to the other stones placed throughout the board. In short, not to be bound by the rote memorization of joseki.

Graded Go Problems for Dan Players, Volume Six: 300 Joseki Problems, 3-dan to 7-dan (6)

Saito, Shunji

The Basics of Go Strategy (Mastering the Basics, Volume 5)

Richard Bozulich

All About Ko

Van Zeijst, Rob

Knowing the basic principles of go is the key to being able to find the best move in the opening and the middle game. The way to internalize these principles is by seeing how they are applied by pros in their games and by contemplating a large number of problems in which these principles are used. Attacking and Defending Moyos starts out by laying down 13 basic principles of moyos (frameworks of potential territories) with examples from the games of Takemiya Masaki, Yi Ch'ang-ho, Sakata Eio, Go Seigen, Rin Kaiho, Ishida Yoshio, among others. The second chapter presents detailed analyses of games played by top pros, showing how they build and defend moyos and how they attack them. Included are two masterpieces by Kitani Minoru, as well as games by Cho Chikun (the master of invading moyos), Hane Naoki, and Sonoda Yuichi (famous for his hyper-cosmic go). The final chapter presents 151 whole-board problems in which the ideas presented in the first two chapters can be applied. Attacking and Defending Moyos is an essential book even for those who like to play a tight territorial game, for they will undoubtedly often meet opponents who build moyos. It is also an essential book for those who like to build moyos but may be unsure of how to defend them against an attack.

Attacking and Defending Moyos (Mastering the Basics, Volume 7)

Rob van Zeijst

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