Secret Art of War
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Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Tactics, Strategy, Proverb, Books & Publications
The 36 Stratagems
Torwards the end of the Ming Dynasty (some 300 years ago) an unknown writer
published "Secret Art of War: The 36 Stratagems" writing down for the first
time war stratagems which first appeared in the official history of Southern Qi
about 1500 years ago.
"The 36 Stratagems" is a military classic of ancient China and has its emphasis
on deception as military art. Here we discuss how those stratagems might
apply to WeiQi.
You may, however, prefer to read how Ma Xiaochun 9-dan applies them in his book The Thirty-six Stratagems Applied to Go.
There are many possible links to other pages on the 36 stratagems.
For example these:
http://www.pipeline.com/~tkd-pix/36_strat.htm
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu:7777/research/globalwindow/china/t6/b636.htm
http://www.warrior-scholar.com/Warrior-Scholar/Warrior-Scholar/Fun/library/36%20stratagems.html
http://www.chinapage.com/36tact1.html
http://www.shadownet.freeserve.co.uk/thirtysix.html
Stratagems when in a superior position
Stratagems for confrontation
Stratagems for attack
Stratagems for confused situations
Stratagems for gaining ground
Stratagems for desperate situations
I picked up a book years ago, Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountains by Gao Yuan. Business focus, not WeiQi, but an excellent book with history of each strategy.
You can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671758551/qid=1027299206/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8802456-1509520 ($8 when I wrote this!)
See also The Protracted Game.
This is a copy of the living page
"Secret Art of War" at
Sensei's Library.
2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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