DieterVerhofstadt/The best of Sensei's Library

Table of contents Introduction Rules Basic concepts The opening The middle game The endgame Playing the game Studying the game Terminology

Introduction

This is my selection of articles which I would include in a book on the game of Go, organized as per this table of contents.

Rules

• Alternating play
• Liberties and Capture
• Ko
• Counting and Scoring – determining who wins a game (stone counting first)
• Komi – to compensate for the first move

Basic concepts

• two eyes and seki
• cut and connect
• territory and influence (and explain territory scoring)
• sente and playing elsewhere
• basic technique or haengma
  • Keima
  • Kosumi
  • Nobi
  • Ikken Tobi
  • Hane
  • Atari
• Haeng-ma tutorial for beginners by Minue
• small gaps

The opening

• The opening
• Leela Zero's opening gospel
• Common opening patterns
• Common corner patterns
• Opening concepts
  • Base
  • Framework
  • Aji
  • Miai

The middle game

• Middle game
• Middle game concepts
  • Sabaki
  • Leaning
  • Forcing moves
• Life and death
  • nakade (special mention of the bulky five)
  • L group
  • Door group
  • Comb formation
• Capturing races
• Capturing techniques
  • Ladder and Loose ladder
  • Snap back
  • Net
  • Under the stones
• Connecting techniques – Keep them together
• Cutting techniques – Keep them apart
• Tesuji
  • Squeeze tesuji
  • Driving tesuji
• Special techniques
  • Two-stone edge squeeze
  • Two Stone Corner Squeeze
  • Keima side connection
  • Sealing in by cutting across
  • Connect instead of hane
  • Farmer's hat half eye
  • Sacrifice five to kill
  • Double crosscut to connect
• Ko fights
• Lose a ko to win the game

The endgame

• Basic endgame theory

Playing the game

• reading: candidate selection (width) and evaluation (depth), i.e. /ThePlayingProcess
• One two three
• fighting spirit
• concentration
• time management
• L'ame du Go

Studying the game

• tsumego
• review
• books and other resources
• Benjamin Teuber / Guide to become strong
• dnerra's ideas on improvement

Terminology

• Go Terms