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The fastest way to become strong at go is to constantly study tesuji and life-and-death problems. But they also advise you not to study difficult problems. Easy problems, they say, are the most beneficial, even for dan-level players. In other words, quantity of problems studied rather than difficulty is the key to becoming strong. In this way, you will familiarize yourself with the key moves in all kinds of patterns, thereby developing your te...

Along with playing games, practice is essential for mastering go technique, namely, practice in analyzing positions and reading out all their variations. However, the practice players get from their games is limited, whereas problem books can give the amateur go player a vast variety of positions that might occur in their games. Practice also keeps the mind sharp and in top form.This is the reason professionals are always solving problems and ...

Opening and Middle Game Go Problems for Kyu Players presents 200 problems of positions that regularly arise in the opening and middle game. It is intended to supplement the Graded Problems for Beginners and Graded Problems for Dan Players series.Whereas the books in those two series are mainly about life and death, this book consists mainly of whole-board positions that regularly arise in the opening and middle game. Some of the topics covered...

When evaluating a position, besides determining the balance of territories, an important consideration is the identification of weak groups. Positions often arises in professional games where one side seems to have secured a sizable amount of iron-clad territory, while the other side has little or even no area of the board that he can count on as territory. However, if the side with all the territory has a weak group, the other side can rectif...

The techniques of attacking, along with tesuji and life-and-death, are part of the middle game, but, whereas you will find an abundance of literature on the latter two subjects, books that focus solely on creating or spotting vulnerable stones, then illustrating how to correctly attack them, are hard to find. This book is aimed at helping to alleviate this lack. Accurate analysis - spotting tesujis and killing or rescuing stones - is certainly...

During the opening stages of the game the players stake out positions and more or less divide the board. Normally each player wants to win and take just over 50% of the board. This usually involves a balance between safety and risk, that is, making a safe and non-invadable extension or an extension that is slightly farther and limits the opponent's territory. The drawback of the latter is that the position now becomes invadable. This usually m...

This book is written for players who have acquired an understanding of the rules of go and some of its most elementary tactics and strategies by having read an introductory book and having played a few games. We have assumed that the reader understands the terms 'sente' and 'gote', that he knows what a ko is, is able to determine neutral points, and can count the score. Its aim is to give the novice an introduction to each phase of the game an...

Tesujis are skillful moves that accomplish some clear tactical objective, such as capturing stones or a group, rescuing one of your own groups, linking up your stones, separating your opponent's stones, making good shape, etc. There are two approaches to presenting tesujis problems. One approach is to collect problems according to the objective that tesujis accomplish. The other is to collect problems according to the kind of tesuji used. In t...

Aji, Kikashi und Sabaki sind wichtige Konzepte im Go. Sie bereichern die strategischen Feinheiten wie in keinem anderen Spiel. Ohne diese Konzepte verstanden zu haben, kann kein Go-Spieler erwarten, ein höheres Spielniveau zu erreichen. Überdies verlangt das Go-Spiel ein profundes Verständnis von Form und Verteilung von Steinen. Ein Spieler muss erkennen wie die Steine und ihre Anordnung andere Regionen des Bretts beeinflussen. Er muss erkenn...

Go is played on a very large board, consisting of 361 playing points. During the opening phase, there will be perhaps 50 to 100 candidates for a plausible move, and, for each of these candidates the opponent's many possible responses must also be considered as well as your responses to each of these responses, and so on. An exhaustive brute-force search for finding the best move is clearly impractical. Clearly, a go player needs some principle...

Perfect for the Go devotee, this is one of the few books on advanced Go play

Master the game of Go with this expert guide. Go is a two-player board game that first originated in ancient China but is also very popular in Japan and Korea. There is significant strategy and philosophy involved in the game, and the number of possible games is vast—even when compared to chess. This is the first comprehensive strategy guidebook in English to cover the entire game of Go by illustrating the nuances and finer points of Go st...

In life-and-death situations and during the sharp skirmishes that arise in the middle game, brute-force analysis is usually required. However, intuition also plays a role in your ability to instantly find the key move that turns the position in your favor. Those key moves are called tesujis. There are about 45 different kinds of tesujis that a dan-ranked go player should be familiar with. If a player has solved many problems that involve a cer...

How do you win a won game? How do you win a lost game? Study the endgame! More specifically, study this book and you will really get strong at the endgame. It would be an exaggeration to say that most games are decided in the endgame, but there is no question that a great many upsets are pulled off at this stage. Players often come out of the opening with a clear lead, only to see it dwindle away in the endgame. On the other hand, if yo...

Das "Second Book of Go" von Richard Bozulich ist ein Weltbestseller der Go-Literatur, der endlich auch in deutscher Sprache vorliegt. Das Buch richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Anfänger, die ihr erstes Regel- und Einführungsbuch gelesen haben und sich nun fragen, wie der weitere Einstieg in dieses faszinierende Spiel am besten zu bewerkstelligen ist. In diesem Buch bekommt der Leser gezeigt, wie man eine angemessene Strategie entwickelt und auf...