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Basic Techniques of Go
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Ishi Press book from 1969, now in a revised edition (Kiseido). Authors Haruyama Isamu and Nagahara Yoshiaki. The second edition is said to be easier to understand with less dense use of Japanese terminology.

This book is an attempt at writing an all-in-one book for single-figure kyu players, covering tesuji, fuseki, handicap games at nine, six and four stones, and the endgame. It does an interesting job of covering an immense subject.

Basic concepts are explained carefully: sente and gote; ladders; shortage of liberties; aji; miai; kikashi; sabaki, light and heavy; and ko.

The tesuji chapter is distinctive because it categorizes a large number of tesuji quite thoroughly:

  1. Special properties of the corner
  2. horikomi
  3. Sacrificing two stones instead of one
  4. keima (watari)
  5. sagari (descent)
  6. kosumi
  7. tsuke
  8. tsuke-koshi
  9. hasami-tsuke (called pincer attachment, but known as a clamp)
  10. hane
  11. ni-dan bane
  12. warikomi
  13. atekomi
  14. ate (atari) used as a high level tactic
  15. kiri
  16. How to defend against a cut
  17. nozoki
  18. oki (placement)
  19. nobi
  20. miscellaneous tesuji

Each section explains the tesuji with a reference diagram and several examples. Then there is a sub-chapter with 50 tesuji problems.

The even game fuseki chapter has sections on corner moves, shimari (corner enclosure), kakari, and proper timing of shimari, kakari, and extensions.

The nine-stone handicap chapter discusses the tsuke-nobi joseki.

The six-stone chapter discusses boshi and uchikomi.

The four-stone chapter focuses on the 4-4 point low approach high extension joseki with reference to: hasami, double kakari, double hasami, tsuke, keshi, and uchikomi.

The Yose chapter explains counting, sente yose, counting the size of yose plays, yose tesuji, and nine yose problems.



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