Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume One: Introductory Problems, 30-kyu to 25-kyu

by Yoshinori Kano, Richard Bozulich (Translator)

Overview

This is the first volume of a four-volume collection of problems and is intended for players who are learning the rules of go. The nearly1500 problems this set contains cover all phases of the game, from the opening to the endgame. It is assumed that the reader is studying a good and comprehensive beginner's book on go, such as Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game by Cho Chikun. For reference, however, we have included a brief summary of the rules.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784906574469
Publisher:	Kiseido Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/10/2016
Series:	Graded Go Problems for Beginners , #1
Pages:	210
Sales rank:	339,049
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Kano Yoshinori was born on April 14, 1928 in Kyoto and died on May 2, 1999. He went to Tokyo at the age of nine and became a disciple of Suzuki Hideko 5-dan. He became 1-dan in 1943 and in 1968 he attained the top rank of 9-dan. In 1948 he won the Young Professional's Championship, in 1955 he won the top section of the Oteai, and in 1961 he won the 5th Prime Minister's Cup. He played in the 14th, 20th, 25th, and 26th Honinbo leagues. In 1975 he went to Austria and Russia, then in 1979 he led a team of high school go players to China for a goodwill match. He graduated from the Japanese Literature Department of Japan University, making him one of the few professional go players to have graduated from university.

Richard Bozulich is the president of Kiseido Publishing Company. He learned how to play go in 1958 while a studying mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He came to Japan in 1967 to study go and founded The Ishi Press for the purpose of publishing go books in English. In 1982, he founded Kiseido. He has written and translated nearly 50 books on the game of go.

Table of Contents

About the Author and Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Preface ................................v
How to Play Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
A Brief Glossary of Go Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Part One: Problems .........................1
I Introductory Problems
Level One .............................1
II Introductory Problems
Level Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
III Introductory Problems
Level Three
Life-and-Death Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
IV Introductory Problems
Level Four
Life-and-Death Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Part Two: Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Go Books from Kiseido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188