Jump Level Up

Jump Level Up! is an Go, workbooks series published by Baduktopia in 2012. It was written by Lee Jaehwan?, supervised by Yoo Changhyuk 9-dan, and translated into English by Lee Seong-Geun? & Daniela Trinks. The series is a continuation of the Level Up series; with the goal of improving players from 10-kyu to 1-kyu.

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Table of contents Jump Level Up 1 - 10-8 kyu Jump Level Up 2 - 8-6 kyu Jump Level Up 3 - 6-4 kyu Jump Level Up 4 - 4-2 kyu Jump Level Up 5 - 2-1 kyu Answer Book Reviews Sample Material Notes

Jump Level Up 1 - 10-8 kyu

Contents and Educational Effect

• When Behind in Liberties 1
  Methods to increase the liberties of your own stones. - Math Ability
• When Behind in Liberties 2
  Throwing in reduce liberties of your opponent. - Math Ability
• When Behind in Liberties 3
  How to create "one eye versus no eye". - Math Ability
• When Behind in Liberties 4
  How to create your opponent's jachung. - Math Ability
• Making a False Eye
  Make a false eye in diverse situations. - Thinking Power
• Six Die, Eight Live; Four Die, Six Live
  Life and death on the 2nd line. - Thinking Power
• Dividing Moves and Blockade
  How to blockade stones without attaching. - Spatial Sense
• Star Point Joseki 6
  Learn principles by studying joseki variations. - Memory
• Next Move
  Practice fights to prepare your actual games. - Judgment
• Find the Key Stones
  Learn to find the important stones by yourself. - Judgment
• Connections
  Learn three essential techniques for connecting. - Spatial Sense
• Cutting: Can you Wedge?
  See if you can cut a one-point jump with a wedge. - Judgment
• How to Reduce Liberties
  Find out where to reduce the liberties effectively. - Math Ability
• False Eye Life and Death
  Review false eye related life and death. - Math Ability
• Belly Attachment and Crane's Nest
  Practicing two specific capturing methods. - Math Ability
• Don't save Second-Line-Stones
  Don't play endgame moves in the opening. - Judgment
• Star Point Joseki 7
  Learn principles of studying joseki variations. - Memory
• Disturb Extensions; Pincer while Extending
  Benefit from pincering your opponent. - Spatial Sense
• Endgame: Making Use of Jachung and Clamps
  Raise your endgame ability in various situations. - Judgment
• How to Answer
  Train to find the best response in your actual games. - Judgment

• Glossary - General knowledge
• Hola Amigo Siddhartha! - General knowledge
• When Behind in Liberties - Math Ability
• Sample Openings - Spatial Sense
• Baduk Education in Meico - General knowledge
• Level Test - General thinking

Jump Level Up 2 - 8-6 kyu

Contents and Educational Effect

• First Atari, then Capture
  Find target stones and read 3 moves to capture them. - Math Ability
• Three-Move Life and Death
  Read 3 moves to solve life and death problems. - Thinking Power
• Widening the Eye Space
  Three methods how to widen the eye space. - Thinking Power
• Narrowing the Eye Space
  Three methods for reducing eye space. - Thinking Power
• Choke or PLay Inside to Win Capturing Races
  Find the vital point in capturing races. - Math Ability
• Where to Approach
  The principle of apporaching form the wider side. - Spatial Sense
• One Eye Versus No Eye
  Finding a target, and capture it. - Spatial Sense
• Win Capturing Races with Jachung
  Capture stones by making the opponent's jachung. - Math Ability
• Star Point Joseki 8
  Learn basic principles by studying joseki variations. - Memory
• Next Move
  Hone your fighting skills to prepare for your games. - Judgment
• Tesuji and Capturing Races
  Find skillful moves to win capturing races. - Math Ability
• Life and Death: False Eyes
  Reiew false eye related life and death problems. - Thinking Power
• Spin Around to Take an Eye
  Making a false eye using a friendly stone in atari - Thinking Power
• Spin Around to Make Chokchoksu
  Make chokchoksu using a friendly stone in atari. - Math Ability
• Making Three Stones
  Live by daring the opponent to make three stones. - Thinking Power
• Star Point Joseki 9
  Study 'Pincer, and jump to center' joseki. - Spatial Sense
• Effective Connections
  Find proper connections depending on the situation. - Judgment
• Ko and Ko Threats
  What are ko threats and how to use them. - Thinking Power
• Endgame: Using Sacrifices and Ko
  Learn proper endgame techniques - Judgment
• How to Answer
  Find the best answer using what you have learned. - Judgment

• Glossary - General Knowledge
• Sunjang Baduk - History and Culture
• Sample Openings - Strategy
• Baduk in a Mandarin Orange - Baduk Cuture
• Sample Openings - Strategy
• Level Tests - General Thinking

Jump Level Up 3 - 6-4 kyu

Contents and Educational Effect

• Liberties of Basic Eye Spaces
  Learn how many liberties each basic eye space has. - Math Ability
• Profit from the Opponent's Overplays
  Learn how to handle the opponent's overplays. - Judgment
• Life and Death: Using Snapbacks
  Make use of snapbacks to capture or save stones. - Thinking Power
• Life and Death: Using Jachung
  Make use of jachung to capture or save stones. - Thinking Power
• Star Point Joseki 10
  Study 3-3 invasions after the large knight's answer. - Memory
• Next Move
  Practice fighting skills to perpare you for your games. - Spatial Sense
• Spin-around Ladder and Loose Ladder
  Sacrifice one stone, spin around to capture in ladder. - Spatial Sense
• Connecting and Blocking Moves
  Review connections and learn 6 kinds of blocks. - Judgment
• Save by Making Use of the Suicide Rule
  Learn how to use the prohibition of suicide. - Thinking Power
• Life and Death and Capturing Races (Review)
  Review what you've learned about these concepts. - Math Ability
• Double Hane
  Understand when it is possible to play a double hane. - Judgment
• Making Snapback and Double Snapback
  Make snapbacks to capture stones. - Spatital Sense
• Life and Death: Miai and False Eyes
  Save stones by making use of miai. - Thinking Power
• Widening and Narrowing the Eye Space
  Realize the importance of life and death. - Thinking Power
• First Line Clamp and Vital Points in Capturing Races
  Find the vital point in various capturing races. - Math Ability
• Disturbing Extensions
  Find the urgent points in the opening. - Spatial Sense
• Jachung Capturing Race
  Capture by making the opponent's jachung. - Math Ability
• 3-4 Point Joseki 2
  Study diverse variations of a 3-4 point joseki - Spatial Sense
• Endgame: Sente and Gote
  The importance of keeping the initiative. - Judgment
• How to Answer
  Use what you've learned to find the best response. - Judgment

• Glossary - General knowledge
• The World Champion is a Kid! - General knowledge
• Sample Openings - Strategy
• Baduk Education - General knowledge
• Sample Openings - Strategy
• Level Tests - General Thinking

Jump Level Up 4 - 4-2 kyu

Contents and Educational Effect

• Liberties of Eye Spaces - Answer or Play Elsewhere?
  Counting and using the liberties in capturing races. - Math Ability
• Connections and Cuts
  Find cutting and connecting tesujis. - Spatial Sense
• Life and Death: Using Weak Points and Vital Points
  Weak points and vital points in critical situations. - Thinking Power
• Escape from Nets and Challenge with a Ko
  Don't give up even in the face of danger. - Math Ability
• Spin aroiund Ladder and Loose Ladder
  How to sacrifice and activate your stones well. - Spatial Sense
• Star Point Joseki 11
  Learn the basic idea about double approaches. - Memory
• Next Move
  Practice fighting situations that appear in actual games - Judgment
• Knight's Net and Bamboo Joint Vital Point
  Finding the opponent's vital point to attack. - Spatial Sense
• Life and Death: Weak POints, Mutual Life, 3 Stones
  Using the opponent's weakness to capture or live. - Thinking Power
• Life and Death and Capturing Races (Review)
  Review the principles you have learned so far. - Thinking Power
• Haengma 1: Cut on the Opposite Side and Capture the Cutting Stone
  Look one way and fight another. - Memory
• Tesuji for Increasing and Reducing Liberties
  Hane on both sides increases the liberties. - Math Ability
• 1-2 Vital Point and Direction of Tiger's Mouth
  Remember vital points that often appear in games. - Thinking Power
• Haengma 2: Double Hane and Stretch after Crosscut
  Review the ahengma principles you've learned so far. - Memory
• Nose Attachment and Stone Pagoda Squeeze
  Learn vital points for capturing in certain situations. - Spatial Sense
• Spinning Around to Make a False Eye
  Review spinning around techniques in life and death. - Thinking Power
• Life and Death: Loose Connection, Twisted Four, Symmetry
  Review diverse vital points to capture or save. - Thinking Power
• Star Point Joseki 12
  Study variations to build influence. - Memory
• Endgame Tesuji
  Gaining profit in the endgame. - Judgment
• How to Answer
  Find the best response by using what you've learned. - Judgment

• Glossary - General knowledge
• Back in a Sauna - General knowledge
• Baduk Terms in four Languages - General knowledge
• Baduk around the world - General knowledge
• Opening - Strategy
• Level Tests - General knowledge

Jump Level Up 5 - 2-1 kyu

Contents and Educational Effect

• Making a Ladder
  Using miai to make a ladder. - Spatial Sense
• Large Diagonal Vital Point
  Memorize the vital points that often appear in games. - Thinking Power
• Connection and Cut
  Skillful moves to connect or cut in crucial moments. - Spatial Sense
• Tesuji to Increse the Liberties
  Learn about a skillful way to increase liberties. - Math Ability
• Cut Back
  Sacrifice stones to cut and capture by surprise. - Math Ability
• 3-4 Point Joseki 3
  Learn a joseki that builds large influence. - Memory
• Next Move
  Practice fights that appear in actual games. - Judgment
• Tesuji to Reduce Liberties
  Learning skillful moves to reduce liberties. - Math Ability
• False Eye and Ko related Life and Death (Review)
  Review all about false eye and ko in life and death. - Thinking Power
• Life and Death and Capturing Races (Review)
  Review all about life and death and capturing races. - Thinking Power
• Don't Bump/Where to Connect/Use Symmetry
  Using haengma based on the shape of the stones. - Judgment
• Make a Snapback and Chokchoksu
  Find tesuji to make snapback and chokchoksu - Math Ability
• Attacment and Continuation
  Studying the follow-ups of attaching moves. - Memory
• Bent Four in the Corner
  Learn why the bent four in the corner is a dead shape. - Thinking Power
• Blockade
  Circling to attack instead of reducing liberties. - Spatial Sense
• How to Escape
  Learn escaping haengma to avoid being blockaded. - Judgment
• Capturing Race Tesuji
  Review capturing races that require deep reading. - Math Ability
• 3-4 Point Joseki 4
  Learn fight sequences that start with a knight's pincer. - Memory
• Endgame: One-Point Defense, Decend to Gain Sente
  Realize the importance of getting the intiative. - Judgment
• How to Answer
  Find the strongest move using all your Baduk knowledge. - Judgment

• Glossary - General knowledge
• Lee Hajin 3p: A Pro's Way of Life
• The 10 Golden Rules of Baduk- General knowledge
• Multi-talented Lee Hajin 3p - General knowledge
• Opening - Strategy
• Level Tests - General knowledge

Answer Book

• For Jump Level Up! 1-5 - 10-1 kyu

Reviews

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Sample Material

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Notes

• The author and translators are graduates of the Department of Baduk Studies at Myongji University.