Life In 19x19

SmartGo is currently offering two of my GoBooks at half price ($4.99) until December 28th.
These are available for the Apple apps SmartGo One and GoBooks.
They are also available as ePubs (two versions: interactive and static) to suit non-Apple users.

You can get them in the SmartGo One app or from ...

https://gobooks.com/books-by-author.html#richard-hunter

Just Enough Japanese 1 is like a casual stroll through kanji that could otherwise be learned on https://senseis.xmp.net/?JapaneseGoTerms. But JEJ1 is much more friendly, it shows you a large picture of the kanji, it introduces the terms in ...

A revised version of JEJ1 has just been released. Moreover, as a Christmas bonus, it is available free of charge until December 30th. I hope this will encourage anyone with Japanese go books (now or possibly in future) to download it and enjoy reading it. I also hope it will lead to more people ...

Volume 3 of The Road to Understanding Japanese (RUJ3) has just been released. This completes the series, which is aimed at readers who have worked through volumes 1 and 2 or have otherwise achieved a good level of reading Japanese go problem books.

For more details, see SmartGo Books ( https ...

The book has just been released as an ebook by SmartGo Books.
https://gobooks.com

By the way, I had a fairly difficult time obtaining the Amazon Japan book previews.

Interesting. I knew there were differences in buying books between UK and USA. I have a amazon UK account that I use a lot and I did set one up on Amazon.co.jp but have not used it to buy any books yet. It looks ...

Those are good questions, which is why I addressed them in the free sample. Perhaps you have not seen that yet or my answers were unclear or didn't answer your questions. Let me know. I quote some relevant extracts below and expand here a bit first.

Yes. Definitely read RUJ1 before RUJ2.
You sound ...

Volume 1 of The Road to Understanding Japanese (RUJ1) has just been released. It is aimed at readers who have worked through Just Enough Japanese volume 3 (JEJ3) or have otherwise achieved a good grasp of basic Japanese grammar. If you bought RUJ2 (published in 2021), then I recommend that you get ...

No, I am not fluent. To date I have limited my books on Japanese to the reading of Japanese go books. The goal is not to speak or compose Japanese or to read newspapers or pass exams. Like many other players, I first bought Japanese go books when I knew no Japanese at all and I just looked at the ...

I am working on a new series of ebooks on Japanese for go players called 'The Road to Understanding Japanese'. It continues on from the previous series, Just Enough Japanese. It is aimed at readers who have either worked through Just Enough Japanese volume 3 or have otherwise achieved a good grasp ...

dfan,
Thank you for the kind words. I am encouraged to hear that my efforts are appreciated.

Typing in vocabulary can be useful training. I know, having done a lot of it. But you can save time by copying and pasting or by downloading vocabulary lists. In case you, or others, are unaware of that ...

I was chuffed to receive congratulations from Satori Reader ( https://twitter.com/SatoriReader/status/1136332556905766912 ).
I continue to use Satori Reader daily. I find the content entertaining in itself, as well as being a memorable way to study and learn vocabulary and grammar. It works well ...

Learn to read and understand Japanese go books.

I am delighted to announce that Volume Three of Just Enough Japanese has just been released. It is an ebook available not only as a SmartGo Book http://gobooks.com/books.html for Apple devices, but also as an ePub for reader apps on other platforms ...

For life and death problems, the pro advice is very clear: one should work on the problem in their head until 100% confident they solved it.
Tesuji problems may be harder to approach the same way, because the goal can be less well defined. But you get the idea.

I totally disagree.

Many Japanese ...

You will find in iOS10 that it is gone. Not just deletable, but gone. Apple scrapped it. Hurray! I hated it too.
There is something called GameKit that developers can use instead.

Switching off GameCenter (notifications etc.) in iOS fails for you?

I do have Game Center notifications turned off ...