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Go Super Books
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This was a series of books published around 30 years ago by the Nihon Ki-in, all with pro authors. There were 50 titles in all. Some of the more celebrated were the volumes on the nadare by Fujisawa Hideyuki, on the Magic Sword by Hasegawa Akira, Ishida Yoshio's first book Joseki Izen, and the taisha volume by Yamabe Toshiro. Material from Iwamoto's Magic of Sacrifice appeared in Go Review. How To Play Against The Stronger Player by Sakai Michiharu is #7. Four books of the series where translated into English and published by Ishi Press:
One of the books was published by Yutopian: Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, known in Japan as (Ama to Puro is best-selling of all these books with Japanese sales in six figures. JanvanRongen: the following list was published by the Dutch Go Association in the spring of 1977. In those days the price was about 5 euros including postage. The books marked with a (*) I actually have myself. 1 The Nadare Joseki (Fujisawa Hideyuki) (*) 2 Test your Go (Rin) - up to 4 kyu 3 Introduction to Trick Play (Maeda) 4 Test your Go (Sakata) - up to 1 dan 5 Beginners blind spots (Magari) 6 Tormenting the weaker player (Hayashi) 7 Don't be afraid of stronger players (Sakai) 8 The first 30 moves (Takegawa) 9 The Modern Taisha Joseki by (Yamabe Toshiro) (*) 10 The Niken Takabasami Joseki (Shimamura Toshihiro)(*) 11 Amateur and Professional, part 1 (Kageyama) 12 Direction of play (Kajiwara) 13 The next skilfull move (Maeda) 14 Shimari Josekis (Okubo Ichigen)(*) 15 Kada's tsume-go class (Kada) 16 Tesuji to make you stronger (Fujisawa) 17 The magic of sacrifice (Iwamoto) 18 Amateur and Professional, part 2 (Kageyama) 19 The focal point of large moyo (Ohira) 20 Improvement without tears (Kano) 21 Pre-joseki Study (Ishida) 22 Magic Sword Joseki (Hasegawa Akira)(*) 23 Tales of Go History (Tamura) 24 Introduction to Go theory (Takagawa) 25 Go instruction point by point (Sakata) 26 The winning chance (Rin) 27 Unusual happenings on the Go board (Abe) 28 Appreciating Famous Games (Ohira) 29 18 hints for improving your style (Masubuchi) 30 Easy Trick Plays for even games (Maeda) 31 Inside Joseki (Fujisawa) 32 The ABC of tsume-go (Shinohara) 33 Kajiwara style -- living joseki (Kajiwara Takeo)(*) 34 Honinbo's hoshi and san-san (Ishida) 35 Building the foundation of sho-dan (Miyashita) 36 The only move (Abe) 37 The psychology of Go made easier (Mihori) 38 Kage san's secret chronicles (Kage) 39 How to make the breakthrough to sho-dan (Miyashita) 40 The Takamoku Joseki, or Win in the Centre (Otake Hideo)(*) 41 The next move in the middle game (Kano) 42 The techniques of invading (Kuwahara) 43 Introduction to Opening play (Nakamura) 44 Joseki Variants (Yamabe Toshiro)(*) 45 If you play Go, here is how (Sugiuchi) 46 How to be stronger at Lightning Go (Otake) 47 How to Fight and How to kill (Kato) 48 Simple Fighting techniques (Sakata) 49 Beginners Go Encycopedia (Murashima) 50 Utilizing the handicap stones (Hasegawa) A new series seems to have been started around 2000. Bob McGuigan kokiri - to confuse things further the list of go super books that the kiin is currently marketing is as follows:
no apologies for dodgy translation... This is a copy of the living page "Go Super Books" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |