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.

Brett und Stein Verlag has just published the German translation of The Basics of Go Strategy by Richard Bozulich: See [Lehrbücher des Go: Strategie]. Also there has just been released the third volume of the new serie Schwarz am Zug. Das Go-Uebungsbuch/Black to Play. Train the Basics of Go. for Kyu players. The first volumes is going to be published in Spanish and French as well. Last but not least a book with picturesque tsumego has been published: in German Der Elefant im Reisfeld. TsumeGo in Bildern; in English The Elephant in the Paddy. TsumeGo in Pictures.

Joseki Volume 3 Dictionary by Robert Jasiek has just appeared.

The first volume of [ext] 21st Century Dictionary of Basic Joseki by Takao Shinji is available at Kiseido (July 2011)

March 2012: Slate & Shell have just issued two new books by John Fairbairn combined into one volume: "Brilliance: Jowa's 'Ghost Moves' Destroy Intetsu" (a detailed commentary on the Jowa v Intetsu "Blood vomiting game") and "Power: Honinbo Shusai defends the Nihon Ki-in" (a detailed commentary on Honinbo Shusai v Karigane Junichi, 1926).

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.

The second volume of 21st Century Dictionary of Basic Joseki will be available August/September 2012 according to Kiseido. (The German edition, which has 3 volumes in total, is fully available since May 2012.)

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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