Tesuji

by James Davies

Overview

Tesujis are the tactics of short range combat in the game of go. This volume presents over three hundred examples and problems of them, aimed at training the reader to read and spot the right play in all sorts of tactical situations. It covers a wide range of material while concentrating on fundamentals; its problems manage to be both hard enough to challenge and easy enough to solve, and there are enough of them to keep the most avid busy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784906574124
Publisher:	Kiseido Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/26/2017
Series:	Elementary Go Series , #3
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	603,971
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

James Davies was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. He studied mathematics at Oberlin College and the University of Washington, but in 1970 the game of go drew him to Japan, where he has lived since. An amateur (5-dan) player but a semi-professional writer, he has turned out numerous books and countless magazine articles on go.

Table of Contents

Chapter One. Reading

Chapter Two. Capture the Cutting Stones

Chapter Three. Amputate the Cutting Stones

Chapter Four. Ko

Chapter Five. Capturing Races. When Liberties Count

Chapter Six. Linking Up Groups

Chapter Seven. Cutting Groups Apart

Chapter Eight. Into Enemy Territory

Chapter Nine. Escape

Chapter Ten. Sacrifice to Gain Tempo

Chapter Eleven. Tesujis for Attack

Chapter Twelve. How to Connect

Chapter Thirteen. Making Shape

Chapter Fourteen. Ignore the Atari

Chapter Fifteen. Double-Threat Tesuji

Chapter Sixteen. Challenge Problems