Catalogue
Go - Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Territory through Connection and Influence. Each player seeks to discover the strategy and tactics necessary to acquire the most territory. Ideally each play should pose multiple threats to create or destroy Connection, Life, Influence, and / or Territory.
There is an abundance of joseki (standard sequences) in Go. The selection of joseki, however, can determine the outcome of the game. What sets the professional players apart are the subtle differences in how they apply joseki. How accurately and efficiently one handles joseki will decide if the outcome is favorable.
By only sticking to popular joseki, it's difficult for one to get strong. However, it takes courage for one to forsake the popular joseki in pursuit of novel plays and shapes.
Regardless of the efforts one spends in analyzing a particular play or shape, the outcome of applying a novel play is often unsatisfactory due to unforeseen factors in actual games. Even if one succeeds, it still takes concerted study and analyses to perfect the play. The novel plays introduced in this book were established by a number of professional players after painstaking research efforts and analyses. The book is packed with illustrations and explanations from the amateur players' point of view, with progressing levels of difficulties. Studying the novel plays and shapes in this book will help you improve your reading, strategical and tactical skills.
List of Content
001 Chapter 1
A Korean Style Novel Strike
019 Chapter 2
A Novel Extension in an International Tournament
035 Chapter 3
A Ramification of a Novel Extension
059 Chapter 4
A Novel Approach That Initiated A Battle
071 Chapter 5
A Novel Attachment Based on Detailed Planning
097 Chapter 6
An Extraordinary Novel Jump
107 Chapter 7
A Dominating Novel Knight
129 Chapter 8
An International Championship Tournament's Novel Peep
145 Chapter 9
A Novel Invasion In A Lightning Tournament
163 Chapter 10
A Novel Invasion That Claims Victory for the Challenger
169 Chapter 11
A Novel Extension - The Momentum of a Young Player
177 Chapter 12
A Powerful Novel Atari
193 Chapter 13
A Novel Invasion - The Starting Point of a Lost Game
203 Chapter 14
A Novel Clamp in the Korean-Japanese New Players Tournament
211 Chapter 15
A Novel Hane With Style
221 Concepts for Outward Influence
221 Japanese Terms for Go Concepts
225 Index
Review(s)
There is an abundance of joseki (standard sequences) in Go. The selection of the appropriate joseki however can result in a night and day difference in a game's outcome. What sets the professional players apart are the subtle differences in how they apply joseki. How accurately and efficiently one handles joseki will decide if the outcome is favorable.
By only sticking to popular joseki, it's difficult for one to get strong. However, it takes courage for one to forsake the popular joseki in pursuit of novel plays and shapes.
Regardless of the efforts one spends in analyzing a particular play or shape, the outcome of applying the novel play is often unsatisfactory due to unforeseen factors in actual games. Even if one succeeds, it still takes concerted study and analyses to perfect the play. The novel plays introduced in this book were established by a number of professional players after painstaking research efforts and analyses. The book is packed with illustrations and explanations from the point of view of amateur players, with a progressing level of difficulties.
Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Yun Chong-Su for his editorial assistance.
Song Ki-Chang, foreword |