Baduk Made Fun And Easy
This is a set of columns being written for the Korea Times, giving an introduction to the game of Baduk. The author of these columns is Nam Chi-hyeong.
The author has published the columns as a book as well and translated it into English. The Korea Times has an article called "Complicacy of Baduk Easily Decoded in New Book" about the book.
The columns are available from The Korea Times Arts & Living page. The articles are linked starting about half-way down this page, and are also listed individually
in a separate section
Because the box to link these articles is small and older links may be lost, the links to all articles are also below:
Intro A: How Baduk went International
Intro B: History Tells Baduk's Passion
Intro C: Korean Stories about Baduk
Lesson 1: Comparing Baduk and Chess
Lesson 2: The Fundamentals (Part 1)
Lesson 3: The Fundamentals (Part 2)
Lesson 4: The Capturing
Lesson 5: Connecting and Cutting
Lesson 6: Efficiency of Moves
Lesson 7: Life and Death (1)
Lesson 8: Life and Death (2)
Lesson 9: Life and Death (3)
Lesson 10: Life and Death (4)
Lesson 11: Life and Death (5)
Lesson 12: The Ko Rule
Lesson 13: The Value of Ko
Lesson 14: The End of the Game
Lesson 15: Connecting and Cutting
Lesson 16: Capturing Techniques (1)
Lesson 17: Capturing Techniques (2)
Lesson 18: Capturing Techniques (3)
Lesson 19: Capturing Race
Lesson 20: The Etiquette of Baduk
Lesson 21: The Lines (1)
Lesson 22: The Lines (2)
Lesson 23: The Opening (1)
Lesson 24: The Opening (2)
Lesson 25: The Opening (3)
Lesson 26: The Opening (4)
Lesson 27: The Opening (5)
Lesson 28: The Middle Game (1)
Lesson 29: The Middle Game (2)
Lesson 30: Attacking Techniques
Lesson 31: Shapes (1)
Lesson 32: Vital Point of Shapes (1)
Lesson 33: Vital Point of Shapes (2)
Lesson 34: Vital Point of Shapes (3)
Lesson 35: Sunjang Baduk
Lesson 36: Star Point Patterns
Lesson 37: 3-4 Point Patterns (1)
Lesson 38: 3-4 Point Patterns (2)
Lesson 39: 3-4 Point Patterns (3)
Lesson 40: 4-5 and 3-5 Points Patterns
Lesson 41: Bent Four in the Corner
Lesson 42: The Differences of Rules
Lesson 43: Big Eye vs. Small Eye
Lesson 44: Professionals' Habits
Lesson 45: Strange Things Happen in the Corner
Lesson 46: Ten Golden Maxim of Baduk (1)
Lesson 47: Ten Golden Maxim of Baduk (2)
Lesson 48: Endgame Techniques (1)
Lesson 49: Endgame Techniques (2)
Lesson 50: Endgame Techniques (3)
Lesson 51: Endgame Techniques (4)
Lesson 52: Haengma (1)
Lesson 53: Haengma (2)
Lesson 54: Haengma (3)
Lesson 55: Haengma (4)
Lesson 56: Haengma (5)
Lesson 57: Wrongly Used Initiative (1)
Lesson 58: Wrongly Used Initiative (2)
Lesson 59: Tips for a Handicap Game (1)
Lesson 60: Tips for a Handicap Game (2)
Lesson 61: Deviating from Intended Sequences (1)
Lesson 62: Deviating from Intended Sequences (2)
Lesson 63: Deviating from Intended Sequences (3)
Lesson 64: Deviating from Intended Sequences (4)
Lesson 65: Types of Ko (1)
Lesson 66: Types of Ko (2)
Lesson 67: Types of Ko (3)
Lesson 68: Key to Winning Ko
Lesson 69: Invasion and Defense (1)
Lesson 70: Invasion and Defense (2)
Lesson 71: Invasion and Defense (3)
Lesson 72: Sacrifice (1)
Lesson 73: Sacrifice (2)
Lesson 74: Direction of Movement Part (1)
Lesson 75: Direction of Movement Part (2)
Lesson 76: Direction of Movement Part (3)
Lesson 77: Direction of Movement Part (4)
Lesson 78: Becoming a Professional Player in Korea
Lesson 79: Ladders and Nets Part (1)
Lesson 80: Ladders and Nets Part (2)
Lesson 81: Ladders and Nets Part (3)
Lesson 82: Proverbs Part (1)
Lesson 82: Proverbs Part (2)
- Lessons 83 to 89 missing from this listing.
all above links are broken. (The Korea Times uses now another domain and all old lessons are gone)
Lesson 90: Life-and-Death Problems (Part 2)
Lesson 91: Life-and-Death Problems (Part 3)
Lesson 92: Life-and-Death Problems (Part 4)
(I am also archiving these locally to avoid what happened with The Magic of Go Yomiuri Shimbun)
Lessons 37-86 can be found via here
http://www.mju.ac.kr/chihyung/main/14304/index.jsp?page=1
Comments
ChiyoDad: Thanks for your initiative on this Malweth. The Korea Times has not created a specific subfolder for these articles so listing them individually (and storing them) is the best current action.
RiffRaff: In a circular reference, the very first column ( How Baduk Went International) actually refers to Sensei's Library as a source for the early history of Go in the Western world.
Steve: This column uses unusual names for the unsettled eye shapes introduced in column # 9. Specifically, she uses "Flowery Four" for the farmer's hat, "Flowery Five" for the cross shape, and "Flowery Six" for the rabbity six. To confuse issues, he calls the bulky five the "Rabbity Five".
anonymous: The shape has always been known in Japanese as hana roku, literally flower six. "Rabbity" is a neologism by James Davies that has caught on because of its use in his book Life and Death. Never heard of "flower five", though.
bitti: Yeah, seems like they used Contemporary Go Terms as a reference which has some mistakes in this respect.
RiffRaff: Unfortunately, it appears that they use the same size image for all types of game diagrams in the web site. This is fine for small local positions, but diagrams like these:
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http://photo.hankooki.com/gisaphoto/20051103/ensor200511031927311BADUK2.jpg
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http://photo.hankooki.com/gisaphoto/20051208/ensor200512082116420baduk1.jpg
are obviously hopeless. I fear this will be more and more of an issue over time, as the columns begin to cover more advanced topics. I sent e-mail to kkt@koreatimes.co.kr and chihyung@mju.ac.kr detailing this problem. There were other e-mail addresses listed as being for the webmaster, but they did not work (mailbox full or user unknown).
RiffRaff: Regarding the above, I received a response from Kim Ki-tae (staff reporter) that said they would do their best to sort out the problem. Based on the (greatly enlarged) diagrams in this week's column ( Lesson 26: The Opening (4)), it looks like they've succeeded.
Mark Wirdnam: "Baduk Made Fun And Easy". Easy! Of all the things to call it...
Chris Kubica: I asked the author how to get these articles collected and she said she is trying to publish it as a book. Anyone know someone who is interested?
It appears that the book has been published: