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What Is Your Favorite Go Book
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Fando: I just picked up a curious book called
Fando: Aha, thanks. He pooed the book though. :(
DaveSigaty: My favorite Go book is
FCS: My favorite Go book at the moment is Kageyama's My favorite book is "Stones" by Andreas Fecke -- it's a book with comic strips. The heros are the cute graphics you see in the upper left. As for "real" go books: more or less all the classics like "Attack and Defense", "Direction of Play", "1971 Honinbo Tournament", "Shusaku", "1992 Tournament Year Book". --ArnoHollosi MortenPahle: The book which I found the best to read, from a purely entertaiment value, and which I could not put down, was First Kyu (The Novel), by Sung-Hwa Hong. Apart from that, the book which has probably taught me the most, and still has the most to teach me is Attack and Defense, by Ishida Akira and James Davies. And, I really like Whole Board Thinking in Joseki, by Yi-Lun Yang with Phil Straus. Matt Noonan: Count me in on Attack and Defense, Direction of Play and Invincible: The Games of Shusaku. Another good book which doesn't seem very widespread yet is A Way to Play for the 21st Century by Go Seigen. It's the only book of his that I've ever read, but he has a nice conversational style and many examples. It's vaguely a book on opening and early middle-game thought. Dieter Verhofstadt: If I have beaten my opponents of equal fighting strength in the endgame, it is thanks to Ogawa's The Endgame. If I force myself to count my games and evaluate the position regularly, it is due to ChoChikun 's Positional judgment: a high speed game analysis. I still think one can become shodan reading only Tesuji and Life and Death by James Davies. I join in with most of the ones already listed, Iwamoto's 1971 book being the favourite. Bedtime reading: First kyu, The Treasure Chest Enigma (!) Stefan Verstraeten: It's a bit like wine - there's so many good ones that it's not really fair to all the others to call one your favourite... I enjoyed all of the above, but a book that in my opinion cannot be left out is Tesuji and anti-suji of go by SakataEio. When you know somebody who's in a bit of a slump, give or lend him (m/f) this book. Chances are the many surprising and exciting sequences in this book will whet his appetite again.
Andre Engels: A vote for Peter Merel: I'm extremely fond of EzGo by BruceWilcox. Wilcox goes a long way toward describing an overall theory of Go. What seems most excellent about the book is its use of examples to explain theory, rather than the other way around. Wilcox also gives excellent advice on how to go about teaching the game. Be warned, however: there are no other Go books with a dustjacket as luridly hideous as that of EzGo. If ever there was a book to not judge by its cover ... Tristan Jones: My favourite book is Kageyama's "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go". It is jam-packed with crucial concepts and Kage's witty style drives home the vital importance of doing the simple things well above all others. Also great is James Davies's "Tesuji". I copied out many of his examples by hand and found myself about two stones stronger around a month later. BillSpight: For my birthday after I had been playing go for almost a year, my friend I played with once or twice a week gave me vol. 5 of "Modern Famous Games" (Gendai no Meikyoku), the early games of GoSeigen. Even though there are many wonderful go books, that and its companion volume remain my favorites. Go Seigen's games are both instructive and inspirational.
TakeNGive (10k): So many good go books, so little time...
RobertJasiek: My judgements are in the Jan De Wit: I recently bought the Second Book Of Go by Richard Bozulich and I think it is the best book I've read so far. It's more on my level and less abstract than Ishigure's In the beginning? and offers more variation than Kano's Graded Go Problems for Beginners (only read volume 2 though :-) The chapters on Shape and ko fights are too short (e.g. some text on how to compute the Value Of A Ko Threat would have been helpful), and the chapter on life and death is too easy for me. If only the author would have approached these subjects as thoroughly as Counting Liberties... Peter Zandveld of Schaak en Gowinkel het Paard helped me pick it, so I guess it must be a good choice (he said that Lessons in the Fundamentals was his best-selling go book, by the way). Oh yeah, I bought a real GoBan too!! Definitely worth a return trip to get Lessons and Tesuji and Life and Death and ... Neal: I have found Life and Death to be the most useful book, and First Kyu to be the most interesting. Kage's Lessons in the fundamentals of go Is interesting and enlightening. Plus, the commentary in his game against Rin is excellent and entertaining. TimBrent-My favourites are Appreciating Famous Games,and the one I currently read the most.Kiseido's Get Strong At Life And Death. I like Lasker's book,but then it was my first Go book. Temporary Discussion on EZGoDieter cites the author who calls himself the leading go theorist. Peter is extremely fond of the book, the described overall theory of go, the use of examples to explain theory, and the excellent advice on how to teach. When I was German 4d I got a look into the book but after 20 minutes I lost interest. The author does use his experience from programming in the book and presents more principles than the average book. However, I was very disappointed about the book. Is this because a) I am too strong for the contents, b) I might be a more profound theorist, or c) I use theory for teaching in my books as well but more extensively? Whatever, I have little clues on the following:
BillSpight: I have copied Robert's discussion to the EZGo page, and I respond there. This is a copy of the living page "What Is Your Favorite Go Book" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |