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Killer of Go
    Keywords: MiddleGame, Tactics, Strategy, Books & Publications

Killer of Go - Technique and preventative measures

A famous book by Sakata Eio, translated by Bob Terry. Originally published in Japanese in 1967 by Ikeda Shoten under the title of Go no Koroshi-ya. Published in English by Yutopian Enterprises in 1994.

Table of Contents

1. Two paths to a winning game (pp 11 - 78)

Ten examples from professional or old master's games, where large groups get killed.

2. "Killing Stones": pluses and minuses (pp 79 - 108)

Three good advices for the middle game and three examples of misfired attacks.

3. Immortal games fully annotated (113 - 169)

Go-Sakata and Shusai-Karigane

4. Killing techniques (169 - 206)

How to develop your reading strength. Examples of reading mistakes or exquisite reading from pro games. Ten advices about fighting.

5. Killer of Go - preventative measures (209 - 219)

Caution - sacrifice a.o.

Here's [ext] David Carlton's review of the book.


Online companion with game files [ext] http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/age-summer-94/companion.html


BillSpight: The Killer of Go series of books is aimed at kyu players. (Vol. 1: Go Killer, vol. 2: Tesuji, vol. 3: Fuseki, vol. 4: Joseki, vol. 5: Tsumego and Yose.) Maybe someday the whole series will be translated. :-) I haven't seen it, but maybe vol. 2 is the "Tesuji and Anti-suji" book.


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