The Way of Go

    Keywords: Strategy, Theory, Culture & History, Proverb, People, Books & Publications

The Way of Go is the first Go book published by major US book publisher Simon & Schuster. Written by Troy Anderson, former insei and senior executive from Red Herring and The Industry Standard, the book looks at Go as a way of understanding strategy, no matter the field under investigation.

While Go players will certainly get it, the book targets a non-Go-playing audience. The book is currently for sale online and the author's website is [ext] http://www.wayofgo.com.

A new article on the book comes from Stanford's alumni magazine [ext] http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/novdec/classnotes/anderson.html. Too bad it has a number of factual errors (Japan being the "center" of the Go world, "361 squares"). Overall, the article is a good summary, including the author's description of the book, "...is “a taxonomy of strategy. The way you’re introduced to Go’s proverbs and principles is like the way you see stars when you’re a young kid . . . you don’t realize they’re organized in constellations. This book is an attempt to put constellations around all these strategies that seem disconnected.”

There is a [ext] link to the book on Simon and Schuster's website.


[ext] Gobase published a note as well:
"international, july 28
Troy Anderson, former insei in Japan has written a book (Way of Go) and established a website - to explore Go as metaphor and discuss his taxonomy? of strategy, for Go, or any field. Read more in the [ext] press release"

A good review of the Way of Go from [ext] http://www.xs4all.nl/~paard/gobook/wayofgo.html


There are now Go lesson videos posted on [ext] Way Of Go available for free! Not the highest quality video, but the lessons are good, albeit short. There is a promise of more. Stay tuned!


This is a copy of the living page "The Way of Go" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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