Life In 19x19

Hi Shenoute,

You might find this post by John Fairbairn particularly interesting:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.go/c/JiGo9Kd6ejg/m/ShJanmNr2jMJ

The book he referred to, authored by Yonenaga Kunio, can be found at this link:
https://tinyurl.com/yr3nm4e9

I remember reading biographies of ...

Greetings! There is a collection of games in SGF format that I would like to convert into a single PDF file. Anyone here know how this is done on Microsoft Windows 10? Much obliged in advance!

1.use Drago or SmartGo to convert SGFs into PDF - you can make PDFs with couple of moves per board (like ...

woppinger, based on my experience with Korean equipment, I would recommend you look for Japanese green stones. Just my opinion.
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/marushin/10002959/
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/marushin/10002958/

You are welcome.

These are very good too, someone reviewed Vol 1, maybe you can search for it.

3600 Classical Life and Death Problems (1200 x 3 books)

Primary
https://goo.gl/b7FvIQ
Intermediate
https://goo.gl/iiZ2h8
Advanced
https://goo.gl/oG5w28

(BTW, check your PM)

I'll do my best, but hopefully Tchan will give you much better explanation:)

From the top:
-1st and 7th set are the same Dictionaries series, books on the top are the newest edition.
-2nd set, Dictionaries under Nie Weiping supervision
-3rd & 4th - set of 21 children books, covering Life and Death ...

why dont you make them yourself, you can find many SGF problems collections online. then create pdf. then print & cut it into flash sized cards

That is correct, but I think Sam Sloan owns Ishi Press Archives and rights to some books published by the original Ishi Press.

Here is an interesing post on old rec.games.go from 1996
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Sam Sloan was an attorney for Richard Bozulich (?)
"...Mr. Bozulich has free access to the services of Sam ...

Did you have a chance to see the original book? Maybe you were expecting too much if you didn't see the 1st edition.

Also, this can be the case (option 2):

Sam Sloan (who now owns rights to some old Ishi Press books) scanned an English 1st book edition,
worked a little bit on it and then print it ...

Because Kiseido now use a "Print on Demand" system

Re memorizing games, there were discussions about that method on rec.games.go,
and I was personally given that advice too.
I believe that was method used mostly by Japanese amateur players.

On rec.games.go, besides Roy L who wrote about it, I've found Motoyasu's ideas interesting - see below ...

psygo, check your PM inbox

4 books are,
http://senseis.xmp.net/?WeiqiLifeAndDeathDrills
(1st edition) and
http://senseis.xmp.net/?WeiqiRapidDrill800Problems
(also 1st edition)

Thanks Vesa for correcting WAGC year, and for finding Korean rectangular bowls.

I can easily made those, and will probably do it in the future.

Thanks to all who responded to my question.

Yesterday I've read on tchan001 blog that Top 1% books are available in Chinese, here is the text:
(and amazon.cn link for these books is m )
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This set is out of print and very difficult to get in it’s Korean form, BUT the good news is that I have checked it against the Quick Success Weiqi ...

Hi, thanks to everyone who responded.

Not sure how they might be called, but looks to me they are rectangular - see page 6 from Ranka Yearbook.

Definitely not boxes for shogi pieces, I have them and the box is much smaller.

And I've never see container for Go bowls separated, it's always for 2 ...