Estimated Problem Book Difficulty
This page focuses on problem books, although problem books containing a little theory are included, with two purposes.
- Provide an estimated difficulty for those interested in the given books.
- Give a structured and progressive guide for those who incorporate problems into their training.
Note that levels are recommendations for when to start, not when they stop being effective. Estimates are KGS based and are approximate guesses from various sources.
It’s recommended to solve problem books multiple times, including upside down and sideways.
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Problem Books
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25k - 10k
- Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. v1 (30k - 25k)
- Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. v2 (25k - 20k)
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners v1 (30k - 20k)
- Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. v3 (20k - 15k)
- Level Up series (25k - 10k)
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners v2 (18k - 12k)
- Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. v4 (15k - 10k)
- Life and Death Problems 1 (15k - 2k)
- Elementary: Life and Death (15k - 1k)
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners v3 (12k - 8k)
- 1001 Life and Death (12k - 5k)
- Making Good Shape (12k - 8k)
- Get Strong at Tesuji (12k - 5k)
- Get Strong at Life and Death (12k - 1k)
- All About Life and Death v1-2 (12k - 1d)
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10k - 5k
- Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. v5 (10k - 5k)
- Jump Level Up v1 - v5 (10k - 1k)
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners v4 (8k - 3k)
- 200 Tesuji Problems (8k - 3k)
- Intermediate Problems (8k - 3k)
- Maeda Beginner (7k - 3k)
- Weiqi Life and Death Drills v1 (7k - 3k)
- 200 Endgame Problems (6k - 2k)
- Get Strong at the End Game (6k - 1d)
- Get Strong at Invading (??)
- Get Strong at Attacking (??)
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5k - 1k
- Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. v6 (5k - 1k)
- 501 Tesuji (5k - 1d)
- 501 Opening (5k - 1d)
- 1000 Weiqi Problems (5k - 2d)
- Graded Go Problems for Dan Players v1, 2 (5k - 2d)
- Get Strong at the Opening (5k - 3d)
- Gokyo Shumyo (5k - 3d)
- Maeda Intermediate (4k - 2k)
- Rescue and Capture (4k - 1k)
- Lee Changho’s Life and Death v. 1-6(4k - 2d)
- Lee Changho’s Tesuji v. 1-6 (4k - 2d)
- Book to Increase Your Fighting Strength v1, 2 (4k - 2d)
- Weiqi Life and Death Drills v2 (4k - 7d)
- Segoe Tesuji Dictionary (3k - 2d)
- Maeda Advanced (2k - 1d)
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1d+
- Cho U no Tokusen Tsumego (1d+)
- Graded Go Problems for Dan Players v4, 5 (1d+)
- Guanzi Pu (2d+)
- Xuanxuan Qijing (2d+)
- Xian Ji Wu Ku (2d+)
- Genran (2d+)
- Creative Life and Death v1,2 (2d+)
- Weiqi Life and Death Drills v3 (2d+)
- Cho U Tsumego (2d+)
- Creative Life and Death v3-5 (3d+)
- Igo Hatsuyoron(5d+)
- Shikatsu Myoki (5d+)
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Comments
- Eizero1: While this page is good for listing tsumego sets, some of the estimated difficulties are really far off.