Go

A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

Paperback, 138 pages

English language

Published Sept. 16, 1997 by Kiseido Publishing Co.

ISBN:
978-4-906574-50-6
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OCLC Number:
42589392

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"This book is the best and most authoritative introduction to this ancient and fascinating game. Written specifically for the western reader by one of the strongest players in the world, it presents the rules, tactics, and strategy of this unique game in a step-by-step, easy to understand way. Besides showing you how to play, it contains essays about the world of Go which will broaden your knowledge and understanding as well as pique your interest. From history to modern tournament play, from traditional playing sets to computer Go, you’ll find it in these pages."

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As someone who has played a lot of go, I still learned some stuff from this book. I really appreciated that every other chapter or so was on a topic not immediately related to getting better at the game (which is not so much my concern). In fact, if I had one criticism of the book, it’s that the author assumes you would definitely want to be a professional Go player if only you could get good enough. (I find this is true of a lot of Go books… and players.)

Anyway, I can’t really speak to how well it would work to learn to play from this book, but it’s a very nice and quite readable introduction to a lot of topics related to go, and I would recommend it highly if that interests you.

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