Go Super Books

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This was a series of books published around 30 years ago by the Nihon Ki-in, all with pro authors. There were 50 titles in all.

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Renown Volumes from Go Super Books

Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, known in Japan as Ama to Puro, is best-selling of all these books with Japanese sales in six figures.

Some of the more celebrated volumes were:

Translations into English

Five books of the series were translated into English and published by Ishi Press:

Two of the books were published by Yutopian:

Several books were serialized in English language go magazines:

  • Rin Kaiho's Test your Go - up to 4 kyu in Go Review (Go Super Books #2)
  • Sakata Eio's Test your Go - up to 1 dan in Go Review (Go Super Books #4)
  • Iwamoto Kaoru's The Magic of Sacrifice in Go Review (Go Super Books #17) (exerpts only)
  • Masubuchi?'s 18 Hints for Improving your Style in the American Go Journal (Go Super Books #29)
  • Fujisawa?'s Inside Joseki in the American Go Journal (Go Super Books #31)

An electronic version of another of the books was made available in English by the American Go Association:

Full List of Go Super Books

JanvanRongen: the following list was published by the Dutch Go Association? in the spring of 1977. In those days the price was about 5 euros including postage. The books marked with a (*) I actually have myself.

  1. The Nadare Joseki (Fujisawa Hideyuki) (*)
  2. Test Your Go (Rin?) - up to 4 kyu
  3. Introduction to Trick Play (Maeda)
  4. Test Your Go (Sakata Eio) - up to 1 dan
  5. Beginners Blind Spots (Magari)
  6. Tormenting the Weaker Player (Hayashi)
  7. How To Play Against The Stronger Player (Sakai?)
  8. The First 30 moves (Takagawa Kaku)
  9. The Modern Taisha Joseki by (Yamabe Toshiro) (*)
  10. The Niken Takabasami Joseki (Shimamura Toshihiro)(*)
  11. Amateur and Professional, part 1 (Kageyama) (Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go)
  12. The Direction of Play (Kajiwara Takeo)
  13. The Next Skillful Move (Maeda)
  14. Shimari Josekis (Okubo Ichigen)(*)
  15. Kada's Tsume-go Class (Kada)
  16. Tesuji to Make You Stronger (Fujisawa Hosai)
  17. The Magic of Sacrifice (Iwamoto)
  18. Amateur and Professional, part 2 (Kageyama)
  19. The Focal Point of Large Moyo (Ohira)
  20. Improvement without Tears (Kano)
  21. Pre-joseki Study (Ishida)
  22. Magic Sword Joseki (Hasegawa Akira)(*)
  23. Tales of Go History (Tamura)
  24. Introduction to Go Theory (Takagawa)
  25. Go Instruction Point by Point (Sakata)
  26. The Winning Chance (Rin)
  27. Unusual Happenings on the Go Board (Abe Yoshiteru) -- (Dramatic Moments on the Go Board)
  28. Appreciating Famous Games (Ohira)
  29. 18 hints for Improving your Style (Masubuchi)
  30. Easy Trick Plays for Even Games (Maeda)
  31. Inside Joseki (Fujisawa)
  32. The ABC's of Tsume-go (Shinohara)
  33. Kajiwara Style -- Living Joseki (Kajiwara Takeo)(*)
  34. Honinbo's Hoshi and San-San (Ishida)
  35. Building the Foundation of Sho-dan (Miyashita)
  36. The Only Move (Abe)
  37. The Psychology of Go Made Easier (Mihori)
  38. Kages Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go (Kageyama)
  39. How to Make the Breakthrough to Sho-dan (Sakakibara Shoji)
  40. The Takamoku Joseki, or Win in the Centre (Otake Hideo)(*)
  41. The Next Move in the Middle Game (Kano)
  42. The Techniques of Invading (Kuwahara)
  43. Introduction to Opening Play (Nakamura)
  44. Joseki Variants (Yamabe Toshiro)(*)
  45. If You Play Go, Here is How (Sugiuchi)
  46. How to be Stronger at Lightning Go (Otake)
  47. How to Fight and How to Kill (Kato Masao) (Kato's Attack and Kill)
  48. Simple Fighting Techniques (Sakata)
  49. Beginners Go Encyclopedia (Murashima)
  50. Utilizing the Handicap Stones (Hasegawa)

Original Names for Go Super Books

In case any one wants to search for these books in a used book store while in Japan, I have added a list of the original titles with author (if available).-- tchan001

ゴ・スーパーブックス

  1.  ナダレ定石 藤沢秀行
  2.  たのしい囲碁テスト (9段から5段まで/初級) 林海峯
  3.  ハメテ入門 前田陳爾
  4.  たのしい囲碁テスト (4段から初段まで/中級) 坂田栄男
  5.  初心者の錯覚 曲 励起
  6.  下手いじめ 林有太郎
  7.  上手はこわくない 酒井通温
  8.  序盤の30手 高川秀格
  9.  新しい大斜定石 山部俊朗
  10.  二間高バサミ定石 島村俊宏
  11.  素人と玄人 景山利朗
  12.  石の方向 梶原武雄
  13.  次の妙手 前田陳爾
  14.  シマリの定石 大窪一玄
  15.  加田詰碁教室 加田克司
  16.  強くなる手筋 藤沢朋斎
  17.  捨て石の魔術 岩本薫
  18.  続・素人と玄人 新置碁必勝法 景山利朗
  19.  大規模の焦点 太平修三
  20.  ひとくち上達法 加納嘉徳
  21.  定石以前 石田芳夫
  22.  妖刀という名の定石 長谷川章
  23.  物語り囲碁史 田村竜騎兵
  24.  囲碁学入門 高川秀格
  25.  囲碁ワンポイント指導 坂田栄男
  26.  勝局へのチャンス 林海峯
  27.  対局ハプニング集 安部吉輝
  28.  名局鑑賞室 大平修三
  29.  筋がよくなる18のヒント 増淵辰子
  30.  やさしい互先のハメ手 前田陳爾
  31.  定石道中 藤沢秀行
  32.  詰碁のいろは 篠原正美
  33.  梶原流 生きた定石 梶原武雄
  34.  本因坊の星と三々 石田芳夫
  35.  初段の基礎作り 宮下秀洋
  36.  この一手 盤上のドラマ 安部吉輝
  37.  楽しい囲碁心理学 三堀 将
  38.  影さんの置碁秘伝 景山利朗
  39.  初段の壁を破る法 榊原章二
  40.  背中で勝つ高目定石 大竹英雄
  41.  中盤作戦この一手 加納嘉徳
  42.  侵略のテクニック 桑原宗久
  43.  布石入門 中村勇太郎
  44.  定石無法地帯 山部俊朗
  45.  あなたならどう打つ 杉内雅男
  46.  早碁に強くなる法 大竹英雄
  47.  石の攻め方殺し方 加藤正夫
  48.  やさしい戦術一問一答 坂田栄男
  49.  初級囲碁百科 村島諠紀
  50.  置石の生かし方 長谷川章

2000 Go Super Books Series

A new series seems has been started around 2000. The Nihon kiin is currently marketing is as follows:

  1. mysterious life and death
  2. 5x5 go [ext] review
  3. studying basic tesuji
  4. the meaning of plays??
  5. first steps to life and death
  6. combatting trick plays
  7. proverbs that will add strength
  8. 18 hints to better suji
  9. go culture
  10. studying winning go from the fundamentals

no apologies for dodgy translation...

The list of the new series with the original names and authors (if available)

碁スーパーブックス

  1. 奇妙な死活
  2. 囲碁特訓 5×5 五道盤上達法 福井正明
  3. 基本の手筋を学ぶ 知念かおり
  4. した手の心構え 橋本雄二郎
  5. キーワードで解く初歩の死活
  6. これで万全 ハメ手対策 石田芳夫
  7. 力をつける 格言運用法 神田英
  8. 筋がよくなる 18のヒント
  9. 囲碁の文化誌 起源伝説からヒカルの碁まで 水口 藤雄
  10. 基礎から学ぶ 勝てる囲碁の法則 高川秀格

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