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Errata, 1st Ed. posted by the author on GoDiscussions.com (corrections in 2nd Ed.) [ext] http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22796&postcount=10

Here is the right version of p. 63:

White has 51 points, Black has 46. With komi of 6 ½ points it is an 11 ½ point victory for White. Black’s mistakes in the opening were countered by White’s passive play along the left side and in the upper-right corner. But after the “interesting move” of B45, White took the upper-right corner and Black thought that defending the moyo was the most important move. This allowed an invasion at the top because Black’s corner was so weak. Black could have made it a slightly closer game by invading the upper-right corner first and allowing White to penetrate the moyo. This would have been more of a fighting game and one continuation is shown in the Advanced section on page 130, along with another possible outcome. However, the difference in all these cases is only a few points—Black still loses. Why didn’t Black do well? It was the geometry of the board that really decided the game. Black’s efforts to make territory in the center had to be defended on three sides, whereas White was protected by the sides and corner where no stones needed to be placed. Does this mean that the strategy of making a moyo is always wrong in a 13 x 13 game because the center is much smaller than on 19 x 19 boards? Not necessarily. In the next game, Black tries to make a moyo again, but it is the ability or inability of the players to take advantage of mistakes that will decide the issue. The perfect game of Go has never been played so, as the Taoists say, "Yin and Yang are forever changing and to be successful, one must be able to adjust to circumstances.


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