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Title: Life & Death by James Davies ISBN: 4-906574-13-0 Publisher: Kiseido Publishing Co Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's Alive!!
Comment: One of the first mountains a beginning Go player has to climb is deciding when a group of pieces has a living shape and what do to get a group into shape. Until this is mastered one is playing 'accidental' Go. In other words, lacking a tactical target, issues of life and death are settled without a clear picture of the desired effect. Which is why early play at the Go board often feels like someone just pulled the rug out from under you.
No surprise then that there are many books on tactical play and analysis. James Davies' "Life and Death" is a very neat volume that organizes itself around shape and provides the basic proverbs that will help a player get a good start. Only experience will completely demystify life and death, but this book provides the kind of lessons that help a players bootstrap themselves up to a respectable game.
Each chapter is short and to the point, with several examples and a number of carefully thought out problems and status analyses. Since the focus of the book is not to test the player's IQ but to provide information in digestible pieces the material is easily accessible, which is not always the case with Go books. Lots of additional review problems are also provided.
The advantage to this entire series is not only the transparency of the lessons, but the author's careful adherence to a size and format that makes this a truly portable book. Go, especially in it's most minimalist form (a small magnetic set, for example) is every bit as backpack friendly as checkers and is much more fascinating. "Life and Death" is an excellent companion for the serendipitous traveler.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good systematic colection of life and death
Comment: This book contains Go life and death analysis from easier to more complex shapes. Of each shape the basic vital points are explained for both players. Special cases of each shape are presented as problems. Much of the problems are in form of 'what is status?', but also 'white to kill', 'black to live', 'white to make ko' kind of problems appear. Reading this book takes quite a time, but as result gives some stones in Go strength. I strongly recomend to have in addition some lighter (like: In the Begining) Go reading to relax with if cracking problems taxes too much.
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Title: In the Beginning by Ishigure Ikuro, Ikuro Ishigure ISBN: 4906574106 Publisher: Kiseido Publishing Co Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Tesuji by James Davies ISBN: 4906574122 Publisher: Kiseido Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: 38 Basic Joseki (Elementary Go Series, Vol. 2) by Kosugi Kiyoshi, James Davis, James Davies, Kiuoshi Kosugi ISBN: 4906574114 Publisher: Kiseido Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Learn to Play Go Series Volume IV (Battle Strategies) by Jeong Soo-hyun, Janice Kim ISBN: 0964479648 Publisher: Good Move Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Dragon Style (Learn to Play Go, Volume III) by Janice Kim, Jeong Soo-Hyun ISBN: 096447963X Publisher: Good Move Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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