Final Summit

Synopsis

The third installment of John Fairbairn's series of commentaries on Go Seigen's games, Final Summit covers a ten-game match between Go and Takagawa Kaku Honinbo organized by the Yomiuri Shinbun and played between July 1955 and November 1956.

Reviews

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Table of Contents

Preface

The Players

Prelude

Game 1: The one with the purple clouds

Game 2: The one where the losing move was praised

Game 3: The one with the two doolally ko fights

Game 4: The one with the candles and crabs

Game 5: The one with the new house

Game 6: The one with all the mistakes

Game 7: The one with angry billows and little to see

Game 8: The one with the breakthrough

Game 9: The one with the lakes

Game 10: The one with the suits

Postlude

Appendix 1: Go and Takagawa's three-game matches

Appendix 2: Complete list of surviving games between Go and Takagawa

Appendix 3: Technical notes

Index

Sample Material

Sample pages from Slate & Shell.

Errata.