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Currently reading Graded Go Problems For Beginners, Vol 3 and Hikaru No Go Vol 9, and trying to understand some old 80s issues of 月刊 碁ワールド. The Beginner Exercises are good reading also.
I'm going to Japan in December to visit the Nihon Kiin and other cool places. While I'm snowed into my ryokan I'll watch some TV go.
Here are some tsumego from my games.
Rank
- 10k Australian Go Association or thereabouts
- 10k KGS (
graph)
- 16k DGS ... on a good day (
graph)
Tournaments
My Go Books
- Go For Beginners - a good introduction for people used to reading concise rules
- The Second Book of Go - a bit clunky, but has an excellent discussion of capturing races, and some good fuseki basics
- Graded Go Problems For Beginners, Vol 1-3 - essential
- Lessons In The Fundamentals of Go - highly entertaining, with soem good commentary on pushing, ladders, etc
- Opening Theory Made Easy - good
- Tesuji - haven't read it for a while, but I remember finding it a bit difficult
- Step Up to A Higher Level - good for 15 - 10k
- Liping Huang's Problem Series, Vol 1 - decent, but not many problems in the book
- Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go - entertaining, but too hard for kyu types
- The direction of Play - way above my level, at present
- The Master of Go (Meijin) - readable docu-drama, with go as a placeholder for Japanese tradition generally
- The Girl Who Played Go - straightforward novel o' doomed romance
Things I Need To Remember If I Ever Want To Get Better At This Accursed Game
To Read On SL
- This thingo on counting that I should look at when I get a moment.
- ZGo doco, for putting some games on teh intarwebs.
- HowDiagramsWork