Life In 19x19

Makes sense. If you want a recommendation you can look at Cho U's Tsumego. It has a few sections of text describing some of his games which will help with Japanese more than the standard tsumego book.

Game description books like meijin series would also be good for improving Japanese skills.

The ...

Are these books any good anyone ^^?

The Book to Increase Your Fighting Strength at Go
("囲碁の力を強くする本")

oren wrote:Oops, they don't have it either. Why that book specifically? I'm just curious.

It looks like an interesting book. Plus, I wanted to improve my Japanese reading skills AND improve my Go skills at the same time.

I'm trying to find a Japanese go book called 囲碁力を大幅にアップさせる 死活の極意 (Make your Go strength drastically improve. Main points of life and death). Does anyone know where I can order this book without any outrageous shipping fees? Thanks in advance ^_^

Here is a picture of the cover:

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I know some time has passed, but I felt it was time for an update. Experience has help him. He's not making (too many ) rash errors any more and his game has improved considerably. He's almost 9k on KGS now and yesterday he managed to beat me at 6 stones (his first win against me) . He's started ...

OOOOOH! We have guesses of a wide variety!!! I'll post the 'true ranks' in exactly 24 hours from my original post

me: Hello, your host artboy598 here for another round of *points to crowed*

crowed: GUESS...THAT...STREEEEENGTH!!!!!!

me: You know the rules. This is based off of the KGS rating system and the closest one will be the winner! Please make a guess for each player and screen names will not be ...

SoDesuNe wrote:I guess my plan to become 3k isn't so diffcult at all, maybe I should adjust =D

Getting to 1d doesn't require any talent; just perseverance. It's only as hard as you make it dude . Good luck

A bit stronger than me perhaps, so I'd guess 3-4k
But I don't like their style. No fighting, no killing, no nothing


What are you talking about? B killed really big in endgame......And no fighting? W was constantly searching for eyes after the rash invasion. Someone needs to work on positional ...

This is a 9dan pro game.....just kidding

k43r wrote:

DDDD?

????

Aphelion wrote:My guess:

Black is artboy. White is someone slightly weaker

nope

This is something I remember from GD.com It's just to see if you are good a judging strength; be that your own or others'. I got this game from KGS so base your judgments using that ranking system. I will release the 'true' ranks after a day. I won't disclose screen names for obvious reasons.
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Aphelion wrote:I would like the topic title to be at least in English, so I can tell at a glance what its about.

done ^_^