Tesuji - the book

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Tesuji is volume 3 in the Elementary Go Series published by Ishi Press (and republished now by Kiseido). This one is by James Davies, the author of Life and Death (which is volume 4).


See also [ext] David Carlton's review


I read this book after about five months of play, and while I only understood about 1/3 of it, I found the patterns from the book showing up in my games immediately. What's more, I realized that sequences that I had been playing had names and I learned how to better use them.

-- Scartol

Naustin--I like this book. I intend to spend more effort studying it but I feel it is helping me to fill in an essential aspect of my game that has been lacking. It's like a tool kit for dealing with a whole range of specific situations in a creative manner to derive an advantage. It seems to be helping me in making sense of local situations better where before I basicaly was frustrated and bewildered by the possibilities that seemed to emanate from every stone.

May be too complicated for twenty something kyu's but at about the 10k range it seems to be very helpful. It's better than just working problems randomly because it presents the general form of a tesuji and then lets you works out alot of specific and varying examples so you get used to applying one idea in a variety of ways and in conjunction with other techniques.


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