DuEm6 (version 136)

Started playing the game a few months ago. Turns out to be a very stressful hobby. Editing Sensei's library is more fun.

Table of contents Books I owned and reviews Books I want to get but probably won't Endgame Tsumego, Tesuji, and problem collections Ko Others Project ideas SL page I wanna write or edit

Books I owned and reviews

All are from SmartGo Books. Very affordable. I hope they publish more out-of-print books and keep including DRM-free epubs. The popular One Thousand and One Life-and-Death Problems and Get Strong at Tesuji probably will never be published on SmartGo Books. I'd guess because the physical copies still sell relatively well. Anyways, the reviews:

• Go A Complete Introduction To The Game: I remember I enjoyed reading it, dunno if I got anything out of it

• Vol. 1-3 of Learn To Play Go Series: personally I found it boring, I just skimmed them, found out about Tiger's mouth from these series

• Vol. 1-3 of Graded Go Problems For Beginners: finished the first 2 volumes, got bored at Vol. 3, I guess most of the problems fall under must-know stuffs

• James Davies' Tesuji: starts simple, but my head hurts at the longer reading problems, so I put it down for now

• James Davies' Life And Death: sounds great in theory, but I couldn't bring myself to finish it, too dry/bland?

• Ishida Akira and James Davies' Attack and Defense: too difficult

• Sakata Eio's Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go: entertaining book, didn't make me any much stonger though

I'm going through the Level Up! books for now. Drilling simple problems is probably more useful than reading theory books that are too difficult for me. Dunno. I'll go back playing after I finished them. I know this is going against the essay One Day, All of a Sudden from the Anti-Suji's book. Or the many SL pages like Fear of Losing. But meh.

Books I want to get but probably won't

Because I feel I'm on a slippery slope of becoming a book collector. Unless some of these ancient out-of-print books comes with a ghost, they are unlikely to magically improve my game.

Endgame

• 200 Endgame Problems - Winning Tactics. I like what I've seen from the preview.

• Lee Chang-ho’s Endgame Techniques Vol. 1-2. I like the preview too. Too bad the 3rd volume probably won't ever get released in English.

• The Endgame by Tomoko Ogawa and James Davies.

• Yose Dictionary by Kano Yoshinori. I just want a comprehensive endgame reference.

• Yose at a Glance.

Tsumego, Tesuji, and problem collections

• Speed Baduk series. Let's hope the reprints sell well enough, so Hebsacker Verlag can reprint the whole series. And possibly other out-of-print Oromedia and other Korean publisher's books.

• Level Up Essential Life and Death Vol. 1-4. Seems impossible to find.

• Nihon Ki-in Great Tesuji Encyclopedia 手筋大事典. Cho Yeonwoo 2p said in her Tesuji lecture that she and other pros trained with the book.

• Lee Changho's Tesuji and Tsumego sets.

• Segoe/Seigen Tesuji Dictionary.

• Other big problem collections in Chinese. Like the ones mentioned in the Tygem 8D advice. Not linked in that post is Kweon Kapyong Baduk Academy Series.
  • (The books are linked in the new thread here -- bugcat)
  • tchan001 link of the same article.

• Dictionary of Basic Tesuji by Fujisawa Shuko. Honestly it's well beyond my level from what I've seen.

• Semeai Tesuji. Another hard to get book.

• The Book to Increase Your Fighting Strength at Go.

• Yi Kuo. Surprisingly impossible to find even in Chinese.
  • Figured it out. It's only available as a part of ancient Chinese manuals set. tchan001's blog lists 2 such sets. Chinese Historical Weiqi Game Records (30 Volumes) and Chinese Weiqi Ancient Manuals Complete Collection (10 books/24 volumes). That's why it's difficult to buy the single book.

Ko

• All About Ko.

• Fighting Ko.

• Think Like a Pro - Pae.

• Ko Dictionary by Murashima Yoshinori.

• Learn Ko Fight from Actual Games of Cho U.

Others

• 呉清源思い出の十八局 今ならこう打つ

• Chinese version of Kim Sung-Rae's books. Link to Quick Success Weiqi Series/速成围棋 on tchan001's blog.

• Cho Hun-hyeon's Lectures on Go Techniques Vol. 1-2. Considering Yutopian folded, Vol. 3 probably won't be in Smartgo Books even though it was in print some time ago.

• Keshi and Uchikomi - Reduction and Invasion in Go.

• GO: Invasion et réduction

• Magic on the First Line.

• The 1971 Honinbo Tournament.

• Other Sakata Eio's books in English.

• Other Rob van Zeijst's books.

• Go World archive.

• Go Review archive.

• Commented Games by Lee Sedol Vol. 1-3. Seems impossible to get.

• Appreciating Famous Games. Too expensive for a used book imo.

• The Treasure Chest Enigma.

• Outside the Board by Lee Hajin.

• Cho Hunhyun: Life and Master Games. Another impossible to get book.

• Golden Opportunities.

• Cho Chikun's At a Glance/ひと目の series.

• Go Terms by Chihyung Nam?.

Project ideas

• script to latexify sgfs collection, so you can produce your own pro game collection ebooks like the ones in L19: Professional Player Game Collections, Free E-books, 470 Honinbo Shusaku games and 155 Honinbo Dosaku games, Honinbo Shuei collection (本因坊秀栄全集), 286 games.

SL page I wanna write or edit

• List of Online Leagues (Inseong, Seongjin, Nordic, Osaka,...)

• list of paid online video lectures/online go school (Guo Juan, Magic, Awesome Baduk, Baduk Doctor's planned website)
  • I'll wait until some of the upcoming ones are ready/out of beta.

• list of online go teachers with contacts, like 1-on-1 (Jaziek, Kaz,...), too much overlap with Teacher or Go Lessons, and I don't play on KGS so no idea about the teachers over there. Also see Dragon Sensei / Teacher History
  • Also include the teachers listed here https://polgote.com/en/individual-go-lessons-online

• List of patreon?

• List of streamers

• List of Discord servers?, because some of them are hard to find. But it's probably against the community wishes. A lot of them share temporary invites for a reason.

• list of blogs, again too much overlap with Go Blogs, and no really active blogs from what I can see, at least quality ones

• list of websites including less-known ones (joseki farm, black to play, gokibitz, zbaduk, baduk.club, http://gustav.ml/counting, https://count.4tc.xyz/, dailyjoseki.com, gotoeveryone.k2ss.info, ...), probably not the blatantly copyright-infringing tsumego/problem collection websites like tsumego hero

• List of Youtube channels (not just in English), perhaps too much overlap with Youtube lectures, but the focus on that article seems to be individual videos

• A copy of Tygem 8D advice with proper names of the books. And other similar articles that will be down soon or later, because baduk blogs are ephemeral existences.

• List of sgf lectures like Becoming 9 Kyu - A Series for Beginners on OGS or Steve Fawthrop / Counting

• anki or spaced repetition workflow, like how to efficiently create an anki decks from common patterns/problems/sgf

• CJK rosetta stone for Baduk terms (before you reinvent the wheel, check this OGS forums post I made in February -- feel free to reuse aI think some pnything you want, ofc -- bugcat)
  • http://english.baduk.or.kr/sub04_01.htm?menu=f14 KBA's baduk terms page is a good start.
  • Reminder to find what Korean term "hurricane" means. Mentioned by Kim Myungwan in his review of Shin Jinseo vs Park Junghwan, game 5 of 2nd 남자 최고 기사 결정전 title match. Seems to be some kind of ladder + squeeze. Korean term for guru guru mawashi doesn't seem to contain any word similar to hurricane.
  • Go Terms by Chihyung Nam seems to be a good reference.

• Other stuffs from Library Work

• Tapir/PagesThatNeedRegularUpdate? Unnecessary busy work imo. Better to just delete the ones like top players/ratings lists.

• Out of print go books is another unnecessary busy work. Too many books are out of print. Not even sure how to start with that page.

• Add Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters/hangul to names. Like people's names and Baduk terms. As a start, https://senseis.xmp.net/?CJKTranslationMissing
  • Also add KBA, Nihon Ki-in, Kansai Ki-in profiles. The Chinese ones are more difficult to find. Impossible even.
  • I thought the players' page were pulled from gobase.org's database automatically. Because they are stubs and written by Charles Matthews. Who I believe has some relation to the website. But gobase.org doesn't have a lot of the players listed in their database. I guess the source was a different database.
  • After reading List of Korean names, List of Chinese names, and List of Japanese names, I'd guess these player's profile pages on SL are added programmatically from unreliable sources. This explains the sparse nature of the pages and incorrect information like dates and ranks. (edit: I misunderstood. My bad.)

• Add Chinese edition of Japanese/Korean books. Especially out-of-print ones. Because for some reason the Chinese translations are usually easier to get.

• Yoonyoung Kim or Kim Yoonyoung page

• Add info about Yike Weiqi server to Go Servers (never mind, that page only lists servers with English interface) and other relevant pages. Plus how to register for an account.

• Fix Shortage of liberties exercise 1. Separate the problem and correct solution.

• Fix Hikaru Problem 11 and Hikaru Problem 13.

• Complete Computer Go terms

• Fix and add entries in Movies and Television, write SL page of more popular entries. Things to add: upcoming Cho Hun-hyeon movie, Hikaru no Go cdrama, Reply 1988, etc.

• Update Professional Players of Taiwan. List is incomplete.
  • More work than expected. Because the SL page Zhongguo Weiqi Hui says there are several organization other than Taiwan Qiyuan. (edit: Never mind, the discussion on the SL page Zhongguo Weiqi Hui was nonsense. The wikipedia pages of Taiwan Qiyuan has the correct explanation, I believe.)

• Update The Impact of Recession on Go Tournaments. Perhaps even create an impact of the pandemic page (already written: Covid-19 and Go).

• Update Buying Equipment.
  • Obvious first step is to email the local Go association for shops recommendation.

• An updated guide to purchase books from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
  • Plus reviews of redirect/agent service.

• Make aliases
  • Artem Kachanovskyi for Artem Kachanovskyj.
  • Yoonyoung Kim for Kim Yoonyoung.
  • Stephanie Yin for Ming Ming Yin.
  • List of Taiwanese professionals for Professional Players of Taiwan. I'll ask for a name change later.
  • Chang Hsu for Cho U and other active Nihon Ki-in 9p's.

• Suggest a promotion record template like pros' wikipedia page. 1 dan in this year and so on in a table.

• Complete Professional Players. Probably split it into individual Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwan page. Remove the table. Add the Chinese/Korean characters. People really underestimate how many names share the same/similar romanizations or even same characters. Add rank. Indicate retired, passed away.
  • Figure out Lists of Chinese Professionals and Chinese Professional List Discrepancies. Seems the chinese wikipedia list of pros is the best one we have. I guess the pro system has troubles? Money issues? I mean all of their websites are down. So concerning.
  • List of Chinese Professionals from the chinese wikipedia list of pros
  • List of North American professionals?
  • List of European professionals
  • List of Taiwanese professionals
  • List of Japanese professionals, from https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/player/dan and https://kansaikiin.jp/wp/prokisi/
  • List of Korean professionals, from http://www.baduk.or.kr/record/player

• Figure out how to link [Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia]/Ben0.

• List of titles/tournaments. Update Professional tournaments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_Go_tournaments as a basis. Plus some Chinese/Japanese/Korean list/wiki and gotoeveryone.k2ss.info,g4g.

• List of national associations. Argentine, etc.