Improve your Intuition

   

Improve Your Intuition is a set of three paperback pamplets (about 40 pages each) by Takagawa Kaku published in 2001 by Slate and Shell based upon articles that appeared in Go Review.

Volume 1: Intuition in the Opening
[ext] sample pages, [ext] publisher's blurb

Volume 2: Intuition in the Middle Game Part 1: Attack and Defense
[ext] sample pages, [ext] publisher's blurb

Volume 3: Intuition in the Middle Game Part 2: How to Reduce a Moyo
LordOfPi: The book has 44 pages and deals mainly about different kinds of moyos and how to reduce them efficiently. It talks about moyos around different corner enclosures and Hoshi - formations (i.e. Hoshi with knight's move extension). The book also explains various attachments on corner enclosures and how and when to use them.
I found this book quite hard but it helped me (especially the descriptions of those funny looking shimari attachments that I never really understood). The book is probably suited best for the 10k-5k range. I wouldn't recommend to read it before 10k.
[ext] sample pages, [ext] publisher's blurb

David Carlton's [ext] review


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