Go Super Books
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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Renowned 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:
- The Nadare Joseki by Fujisawa Hideyuki
- The Magic Sword Joseki by Hasegawa Akira
- Pre-joseki Study (Joseki Izen) by Ishida
- The Modern Taisha Joseki by Yamabe Toshiro
Translations into English
Five books of the series were translated into English and published by Ishi Press:
- Kageyama's Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go (Go Super Books #11)
- Kajiwara's The Direction of Play (Go Super Books #12)
- Ohira Shuzo's Appreciating Famous Games (Go Super Books #28)
- Kageyama's Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go (Go Super Books #38)
- Kato Masao's Attack and Kill (Go Super Books #47)
Two of the books were published by Yutopian:
- Lin Hai Feng's Golden Opportunities
- Abe Yoshiteru's Dramatic Moments on the Go Board (Go Super Books #27)
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:
- Sakai Michiharu's How to Play Against the Stronger Player (Go Super Books #7)
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.
- The Nadare Joseki (Fujisawa Hideyuki) (*)
- Test Your Go (Rin?) - up to 4 kyu
- Introduction to Trick Play (Maeda)
- Test Your Go (Sakata Eio) - up to 1 dan
- Beginners Blind Spots (Magari)
- Tormenting the Weaker Player (Hayashi)
- How To Play Against The Stronger Player (Sakai?)
- The First 30 moves (Takagawa Kaku)
- The Modern Taisha Joseki by (Yamabe Toshiro) (*)
- The Niken Takabasami Joseki (Shimamura Toshihiro)(*)
- Amateur and Professional, part 1 (Kageyama) (Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go)
- The Direction of Play (Kajiwara Takeo)
- The Next Skillful Move (Maeda)
- Shimari Josekis (Okubo Ichigen)(*)
- Kada's Tsume-go Class (Kada)
- Tesuji to Make You Stronger (Fujisawa Hosai)
- The Magic of Sacrifice (Iwamoto)
- Amateur and Professional, part 2 (Kageyama)
- The Focal Point of Large Moyo (Ohira)
- Improvement without Tears (Kano)
- Pre-joseki Study (Ishida)
- Magic Sword Joseki (Hasegawa Akira)(*)
- Tales of Go History (Tamura)
- Introduction to Go Theory (Takagawa)
- Go Instruction Point by Point (Sakata)
- The Winning Chance (Rin)
- Unusual Happenings on the Go Board (Abe Yoshiteru) -- (Dramatic Moments on the Go Board)
- Appreciating Famous Games (Ohira)
- 18 hints for Improving your Style (Masubuchi)
- Easy Trick Plays for Even Games (Maeda)
- Inside Joseki (Fujisawa Hideyuki)
- The ABC's of Tsume-go (Shinohara)
- Kajiwara Style -- Living Joseki (Kajiwara Takeo)(*)
- Honinbo's Hoshi and San-San (Ishida)
- Building the Foundation of Sho-dan (Miyashita)
- The Only Move (Abe)
- The Psychology of Go Made Easier (Mihori)
- Kages Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go (Kageyama)
- How to Make the Breakthrough to Sho-dan (Sakakibara Shoji)
- The Takamoku Joseki, or Win in the Centre (Otake Hideo)(*)
- The Next Move in the Middle Game (Kano)
- The Techniques of Invading (Kuwahara)
- Introduction to Opening Play (Nakamura)
- Joseki Variants (Yamabe Toshiro)(*)
- How would you play if it's you (Sugiuchi)
- How to be Stronger at Lightning Go (Otake)
- How to Fight and How to Kill (Kato Masao) (Kato's Attack and Kill)
- Simple Fighting Techniques (Sakata)
- Beginners Go Encyclopedia (Murashima)
- Utilizing the Handicap Stones (Hasegawa)
Original Names for Go Super Books
tchan001: 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).--
ゴ・スーパーブックス
- ナダレ定石 藤沢秀行
- たのしい囲碁テスト (9級から5級まで/初級) 林海峯
- ハメテ入門 前田陳爾
- たのしい囲碁テスト (4級から初段まで/中級) 坂田栄男
- 初心者の錯覚 曲 励起
- 下手いじめ 林有太郎
- 上手はこわくない 酒井通温
- 序盤の30手 高川秀格
- 新しい大斜定石 山部俊朗
- 二間高バサミ定石 島村俊宏
- 素人と玄人 景山利朗
- 石の方向 梶原武雄
- 次の妙手 前田陳爾
- シマリの定石 大窪一玄
- 加田詰碁教室 加田克司
- 強くなる手筋 藤沢朋斎
- 捨て石の魔術 岩本薫
- 続・素人と玄人 新置碁必勝法 景山利朗
- 大規模の焦点 太平修三
- ひとくち上達法 加納嘉徳
- 定石以前 石田芳夫
- 妖刀という名の定石 長谷川章
- 物語り囲碁史 田村竜騎兵
- 囲碁学入門 高川秀格
- 囲碁ワンポイント指導 坂田栄男
- 勝局へのチャンス 林海峯
- 対局ハプニング集 安部吉輝
- 名局鑑賞室 大平修三
- 筋がよくなる18のヒント 増淵辰子
- やさしい互先のハメ手 前田陳爾
- 定石道中 藤沢秀行
- 詰碁のいろは 篠原正美
- 梶原流 生きた定石 梶原武雄
- 本因坊の星と三々 石田芳夫
- 初段の基礎作り 宮下秀洋
- この一手 盤上のドラマ 安部吉輝
- 楽しい囲碁心理学 三堀 将
- 影さんの置碁秘伝 景山利朗
- 初段の壁を破る法 榊原章二
- 背中で勝つ高目定石 大竹英雄
- 中盤作戦この一手 加納嘉徳
- 侵略のテクニック 桑原宗久
- 布石入門 中村勇太郎
- 定石無法地帯 山部俊朗
- あなたならどう打つ 杉内雅男
- 早碁に強くなる法 大竹英雄
- 石の攻め方殺し方 加藤正夫
- やさしい戦術一問一答 坂田栄男
- 初級囲碁百科 村島諠紀
- 置石の生かし方 長谷川章
tchan001: I now have collected the whole original series. Pictures of this set of books can be found at this entry on my blog.
2000 Go Super Books Series
A new series seems has been started around 2000. The Nihon kiin is currently marketing is as follows:
- mysterious life and death
- 5x5 go
review
- studying basic tesuji
- the attitude of the weaker player
- Keywords to success on the first try: life and death
- Perfection this way: combatting trick plays
- Using proverbs to exert your strength
- 18 hints to better suji
- Go Culture from the First Legends to Hikaru no Go
- Winning Go through Studying 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
- 奇妙な死活
- 囲碁特訓 5×5 五道盤上達法 福井正明
- 基本の手筋を学ぶ 知念かおり
- した手の心構え 橋本雄二郎
- キーワードで解く初歩の死活
- これで万全 ハメ手対策 石田芳夫
- 力をつける 格言運用法 神田英
- 筋がよくなる 18のヒント
- 囲碁の文化誌 起源伝説からヒカルの碁まで 水口 藤雄
- 基礎から学ぶ 勝てる囲碁の法則 高川秀格
tchan001: Pictures of the set of newer go super books series can be found at this entry at my blog.