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Basic Techniques of Go »
Authors: Haruyama Isamu, Nagahara Yoshiaki, Richard Bozulich
ISBN-13: 9784906574025, ISBN-10: 4906574025
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kiseido Publishing Company
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Haruyama Isamu
Book Synopsis
The most useful book for beginning players ever written. After introducing the basic principles of opening play, the reader is shown practical sure-win strategies that he or she can use in handicap games. A chapter is devoted to tesujis (tactical brilliancies), with 69 examples and 50 problems. The book ends with a chapter on the endgame.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Third Edition | v | |
| Technical Terms | vi | |
| Chapter 1 | Principles of Even-Game Openings | 1 |
| a) | Opening Moves | 1 |
| b) | Corner Enclosures | 4 |
| c) | Approach Moves | 7 |
| d) | Proper Timing of Enclosures, Approach Moves, and Extensions | 10 |
| How to Play Handicap Go | 15 | |
| Chapter 2 | The Nine-Stone Handicap and the Attach-and-Extend Joseki | 16 |
| Chapter 3 | Six Stone Handicap Opening Strategy | 27 |
| a) | White's Capping Strategy | 27 |
| b) | Invading the Sides | 34 |
| Chapter 4 | Four-Stone Handicap and the One-Space Jump Joseki | 40 |
| The One-Space Jump in Four-Stone Handicap Openings | 50 | |
| a) | The Pincer | 50 |
| b) | Double Approach Moves | 63 |
| c) | Double Pincer | 70 |
| d) | The Attachment | 73 |
| e) | Capping | 77 |
| f) | The Invasion | 82 |
| Chapter 5 | A Survey of Tesuji | 84 |
| Tesuji Problems | 84 | |
| Answer to the Tesuji Problems | 120 | |
| Chapter 6 | The Endgame | 130 |
| a) | Counting the Size of a Territory | 130 |
| b) | Sente Endgame | 133 |
| c) | Counting the Size of an Endgame Play | 136 |
| d) | Endgame Tesujis | 143 |
| e) | Endgame Problems | 156 |
| Appendix | 165 |
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