Coming Soon and Go Book Rumors

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For those of us addicted to Go books to collect all the rumors so we can drool over upcoming tomes.

New Releases

The [ext] New Books in Go page at Schaak en Gowinkel het Paard is always an excellent reference for what has recently been published.

[ext] Winning Go: Successful Moves from the Opening to the Endgame by Richard Bozulich and Peter Shotwell is available on Amazon. (Sept. 2010)

[ext] Master Play: The Playing Styles Of Seven Top Pros by Yuan Zhou is available at Slate and Shell. (Oct. 2010)

[ext] The Master of Haengma by Sung-Ho Baek is available at Slate and Shell. (Oct. 2010)

{John F.] My "The Meijin's Retirement Game" is scheduled to be published on 22 November 2010 by Slate & Shell. This 150-page book covers in great depth the famous 1938 game between Honinbo Shusai and Kitani Minoru. The centrepiece is a detailed commentary (128 variation diagrams) based on many professional commentaries over 70 years. There is also a long biography of Shusai and the build up to the game is described, with some splendid historical photos. An appendix of some 25 pages expands on and/or corrects all the go references necessary to enjoy more fully "The Master of Go", the Seidensticker translation of Kawabata Yasunari's novel devoted to this game. Price not yet known, but it appears to be the same format as "The Go Consultants" and so I expect a similar price.

Coming Soon

John Fairbairn is working on a series of thorough game commentaries of Go Seigen's jubango (ten-game matches) of which Kamakura was the first, Final Summit the second, and 9-Dan Showdown against Fujisawa Kuranosuke the third. Future volumes will include the matches with Sakata Eio, Hashimoto, Iwamoto Kaoru, the 'Ten Rising Stars,' Karigane Junichi and an unfinished ten-game match with Kitani Minoru. More info [ext] here.

tchan001 Richard Bozulich of Kiseido has informed members of the LifeIn19x19 forum that Kiseido is hard at work translating the Nihon Ki-in's new updated two volume joseki dictionary by Takao Shinji (published in January 2010) into English. Kiseido expects the first volume to be published in the fall of 2010 and the second volume in early 2011. Source: [ext] http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9177#p9177 Update: Translation work is taking longer than expected; the first volume is now scheduled for spring 2011. Source: [ext] http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=27750#p27750

tapir: If it comes out in spring then it will probably the first time that a japanese go book is published earlier in its german translation than in its english one. brett und stein verlag is working on the german translation.

tchan001 Back page of Go World #122 shows "The 21st Century Dictionary of Basic Josekis, Volumes 1 and 2" by Takao Shinji 9-dan. This is the English translation of the Nihon Kiin's latest joseki dictionary from Feb 2010. Vol 1 English translation will be available late Oct 2010 and Vol 2 English translation will be available early 2011

John Fairbairn is releasing another book 'from the GoGoD archives', Shusai's Retirement Game. Source: [ext] http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25958#p25958

Coming Someday?

FredK: I've been waiting for years for Intermediate Level Power Builder, Volume 3. Does anyone have inside information on when Yutopian might release it?


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