The Magic of Go Yomiuri Shimbun
The Magic of Go was a weekly Go column in the Daily Yomiuri Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper. It was originally authored by Richard Bozulich (Issues 1-46) and was later continued by Rob van Zeijst (Issues 47-428). It should not be confused with the book which was written by Cho Chikun.
On August 18 of 2007, the last issue ( #428) of The Magic of Go appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbun. Although Rob van Zeijst will be writing further issues, they will no longer appear in print. Instead, they can be accessed online at the new official site:
http://www.themagicofgo.com (The site is offline, does someone know if the articles have moved?)
The official site also contains an archive of older issues, which are available to registered users. The archive is not complete, but will be growing with about 2 articles per week.
Archives
Issues 282-428 are still accessible through the Daily Yomiuri Online in their section named
Columns: The Magic of Go.
Copies of older issues can be found at:
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The Magic of Go section of The Internet Archive (articles itself not all archived)
- LINK DEAD
The Magic if Go 00-389 in CHM (HTMLHelp) Format (13MB, cleaned up, fulltext search)
- Issues 1 through 15 combine an introduction to the rules with an overview of the history of go in China, Japan, and Korea.
- Issues 16 through 30 provide brief profiles of a number of modern go players.
- Issues 31 through 46 describe some go current events and some basic tesuji.
- Issues 16 through 30 provide brief profiles of a number of modern go players.
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The Magic of Go articles 1-282
Corrections are listed in Errata.
See also
Comments
Lesson 49 is missing in all archives :(