Richard Hunter

Richard Hunter
British player living in the UK. Currently playing as 1 dan. Received 4 dan certificate in 1991.
Playing regularly at Bristol go club.
Lived on the Isle of Man 2008-2009.
Lived in Tokyo, Japan 1980-2008.
Regular contributor to the British Go Journal from 1991 to 2006.

Email contact: (<first name> <underscore character> <last name> at mac dot com)

Books

Author of nine go books.

Printed books

Cross-cut Workshop: 1st Ed: July 2001; 2nd Ed: March 2008
Monkey Jump Workshop: May 2002
Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races: April 2003, German [Lehrbücher des Go. Freiheiten und Wettläufe 2017
Key Concepts in Life and Death -- Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques: July 2007

e-Books

Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races: July 2013
Key Concepts in Life and Death -- Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques: November 2013
Cross-cut Workshop: December 2013
The Monkey Jump: July 2014
Just Enough Japanese Volume One: April 2015
Just Enough Japanese Volume Two: December 2015
Just Enough Japanese Volume Three: April 2019
The Road to Understanding Japanese Volume Two: February 2021
The Road to Understanding Japanese Volume One: January 2022

Go Interests

When I was in Japan, I used to watch Go programs on Japanese TV and I have a collection of DVD recordings. I used to browse through Second-hand bookshops in Tokyo? and I have a large collection of second-hand Japanese go books.

I'm interested in encouraging people to read Japanese go books. Here's a page to help people who know no Japanese get started: Basic Japanese for Reading Go Books.

The ipad is a wonderful accessory for go players. I'm on my second now. Ipad 4 with retina display (after an ipad 2). I use it for studying go and Japanese, as well as for other purposes.

ipad software that I have:

Go programs that I use regularly

Smartgo Kifu
SmartGo Books
EasyGo
Tsumego Pro

Go programs that I occasionally use or previously used

Nihon Kiin iGO Books
4by4GoPuzzle (by Cho U)

Japanese programs/websites that I use regularly

StickyStudy Japanese
Midori
Satori Reader

Japanese programs that I occasionally use or previously used

Human Japanese
Japanese for iOS
JiShop
imiwa?
Tengugo
Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese
Wakaru

Some links for my benefit

TextFormattingRulesIntroduction
HowDiagramsWork
JapaneseGoColumnURLs
HowForumsWork
QuickQuestions