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Go Proverbs

Table of contents Current Study Regimen

Table of diagrams Alive, Unsettled, Dead Six Die, Seven Unsettled, Eight Live Cho Chikun #42

Current Study Regimen

• Lessons in The Fundamentals Of Go - Toshiro Kageyama, 7d
• Life and Death - James Davies
• Cho Chikun's Encyclopedia of Life and Death
• Guo Juan's Audio Lessons
• Play Play Play - KGS

I am currently completing 50-100 games against like opponents with a simple strategy of Cut when I can Cut, Connect When I Can Connect. When catching stones, ask if I can catch it in a ladder or catch it in a net? This advice for beginners from "Lessons.." above.

These are the building blocks - The Fundamentals - of Go.

Alive, Unsettled, Dead  

1. a - Unsettled Three
2. b,c - Alive
3. d - Unsettled (Rabbity Six)
4. e,f - Alive
5. g - Unsettled (Five-Space Star)
6. h,i/j,k - Dead (Square Four)
7. l - Unsettled (Pyramid Four)
8. m - Unsettled (Bulky Five)

Six Die, Seven Unsettled, Eight Live  

Cho Chikun #42  

Black to Move and Kill
This was very difficult for me.

Opening Concepts

• Make Your Stones Work Together
• Efficiency
• Play Away From Strength
• Thickness and Walls
• Open at the Bottom
• The Third Line and the Fourth
• Reverse Strategy
• Light and Heavy
• Attack and Defense