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Opening Theory Made Easy
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Opening Theory Made Easy

Twenty Strategic Principles to Improve Your Opening Game

by Otake Hideo 9-dan

The book tries to keep things simple. It doesn't contain long complicated sequences with many variations. The author manages to explain deep things simply.

From the Preface: "... In this book I have selected what I consider to be 20 key points of the fuseki and explained them with concrete examples. This book is made up of three chapters (Fuseki Fundamentals, Good Shape, Strategy), but the division is not very significant. I recommend that the reader treat my 20 principles as proverbs and familiarize himself with them until they become second nature ... Knowledge of these principles will help you develop a deeper understanding of the fuseki and master its basic strategy. ..."

Otake Hideo

Some of the principles in the book:

Unfortunately this book is hard to get in Europe. The best chance is probably to get it used from another Go player. I'd recommend it for 15k - 5k players.

--LordOfPi

Hdouble: I think that this book is of value to players in the 20-25k range as well; that's where I'm at and I've found this book useful and accessible. Many of the principles are broad enough that they can be safely and usefully applied by new players (making good shape, avoiding the empty triangle, understanding the difference between 3rd line and 4th line play, etc.) Also, I believe this book is supposed to be reprinted sometime in the next few months (Spring 2003).

Cheyenne: According to the reports that I have been seeing from Kiseido, the book will be available towards the end of January 2003.

Hyppy: This book is currently available from Kiseido as K36. I just bought it myself.

Phlegmatic: I'm 12k and after only a couple of hours with this book I've gained a tremendous amount from it. I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone around my rank.

rsl12: I got this book a couple weeks ago. Having only gone through about 1/3 of the book, my rank went from 20k to 18k! I'm no longer so confused about what to do in the openings. The principles are few in number and all very easy to understand intuitively. It gives you the telescope you need to see the constellations formed by the stones. Before reading the book, I just sort of randomly plopped stones anywhere that looked open. Now my brain tingles during the opening game. That's probably a good sign.



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