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Alex Weldon's Christmas List
It's that time of year... I need to tell friends and family what I would like Santa to leave me under the tree. Given the fact that I never shut up about the game, I'm bound to get a few Go books, but I don't really need, e.g. The Second Book of Go, and most friends and family know nothing about the game, so I'll need to give them specific titles if I'm going to get something useful. My rank is 1 dan, and I already own:
So... what would people recommend? I would recommend:
I tend to find problems to be very useful practice, particularly ones that aren't too challenging. If you like joseki study, then a copy of Ishida might make good reading. It's somewhat dated, but the analysis that goes into the positions is very good reading material. Anyway, hope this helps.
I have a mid-sized go library (30 books or so) and there are only one or two I dislike to the point that I hardly read them. So, I feel that I can hardly ever go wrong. If a book looks interesting, I get it. Sometimes I'm underwhelmed but I always get some value out of it. I find it helpful to always have some new problems to work on so I tend to buy any problem book I can find. They're all good (hard to go wrong if they force you to read, which is the point). I guess the main thing you want to avoid is getting books way below your level. But, I'm finding even intro books are helpful to 1 dan. For example Attack and Defense has a lot of stuff that I didn't fully appreciate until recently, even though it is one of the first go books I owned. So, aside from the books clearly aimed at the under 10-kyu crowd (e.g., SecondBookofGo, it is really hard to find a useless Go book for a 1 dan (IMHO).
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