[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]

StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About


Aliases
SecondBookOfGo

Referenced by
BeginnerStudySection
GoBooks
Oiotoshi
EZGO
InTheBeginning
RichardBozulich
IshiPress
SchaakEnGowinkelH...

Homepages
Amc

 

The Second Book of Go
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Book

The Second Book of Go, by Richard Bozulich. The first edition was published by The Ishi Press. A new edition, with several differences, was published by Kiseido in 1998.

See also [ext] David Carlton's review.


This is a book for those who have just learned the rules and now start to want to know more about the game. The first edition is divided into four parts:

The Basics

(Eyes and living groups, capturing races, tesujis, life and death, shape)

The Opening

The Middle Game

The Endgame and Ko-Fights

I found this book extremely helpful, interesting and fun to read. It brought me from nothing to 22k* on IGS.

- DavidPeklak


Jan: The contents above refer to the first edition. The second edition's contents are:

  • Preface

Part One: Strategy

  • A Brief Glossary of Japanese Go Terms
  • Chapter 1: The Opening Move
  • Chapter 2: Handicap-Go Strategy
  • Chapter 3: Josekis
  • Chapter 4: Securing Territory by Attacking

Part Two: Tactics

  • Chapter 5: Tesuji
  • Chapter 6: Life and Death
  • Chapter 7: Counting Liberties
  • Chapter 8: How to Win Capturing Races
  • Chapter 9: Good and Bad Shape
  • Chapter 10: The Endgame
  • Chapter 11: Ko Fights
  • Bibliography

Chapter 6 and the last three chapters are a bit short, in my opinion. But the rest is excellent!

Dieter: Chapters 7 & 8 are the famous articles by Richard Hunter, one of the most helpful and self-contained treatments of an aspect of the game. The book is certainly worth buying for these chapters alone.

Jan: Yes, those chapters were one of the reasons I bought this book over a year ago. However, I still don't have the theory memorized :-) All I know is: 'Count! Read! Count! Read! Count! Read!' (and be aware of eyes and approach moves). That's good enough at my level - perhaps even better?

In retrospect, those two chapters stand out from the rest of the book: in thoroughness as well as in level. I think they would have merited a 'Workshop'-like book, a la Monkey Jump Workshop.

Dieter: The author agrees with that: see Richard Hunter.

Jan: Great minds think alike! I probably got the idea from SL anyway :-)



This is a copy of the living page "The Second Book of Go" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.