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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 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 OpeningThe Middle GameThe Endgame and Ko-FightsI found this book extremely helpful, interesting and fun to read. It brought me from nothing to 22k* on IGS. Jan: The contents above refer to the first edition. The second edition's contents are:
Part One: Strategy
Part Two: Tactics
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. ![]() |