Life In 19x19

Japanese Newspaper circulation is dropping.See:

http://yoshizuka.com/index.php/2021/09/21/the-official-circulation-of-the-mainichi-shimbun-has-fallen-below-2-million-however-actual-sales-are-much-lower-rumored-to-be-around-1-or-1-4-million-copies/

The Mainichi has the smallest circulation of the ...

https://www.britgo.org/history/earlyhist

will point you to an article in the British Go Journal 136 by Bob Hitchens which contains:

A significant “first” for British Go
occurred in 1961 when Kensaku Segoe
visited Britain. A match was arranged
at John’s flat for B.B.C. television, but
lack of ...

John - John Barrs mentioned this to me as Segoe had visited him at his flat in London and Segoe had given Barrs a gift of a gold canister. Mrs Barrs had opened it and she thought it was tea so she made a pot and took it through. Segoe threw his head back and roared with laughter, flashing his gold ...

I eventually returned the badly printed copy to Amazon, got a refund and ordered another copy. That arrived a bit battered, but it had the same printing problems, which was odd as I thought it was print-on-demand. I think Amazon just returned my first copy!

Anyway as I really wanted a good copy, I ...

Maeda's classic 3 volume series on Tsume Go was first published in 1965/1967 but has been out of print for some years. A revised edition in two volumes was published in November 2019. The editor of the revised edition is Ohashi Hirofumi, 6 dan, born in 1984.

Like many Go players from the late 1960s ...

I wouldn't expect you to have this problem. My copy was printed in the UK and it's a printing issue - one colour ink ran out. Our copies were printed from the same manuscript that John F produced, but as it's print-on-demand things can go wrong - in my case every fourth page but that doesn't show on ...

John - I have now had time to go through The Survivors - it's a book that I really like. I enjoyed the background and learning about Iwamoto's time in Brazil, which I was aware of but had not read anything. Highly recommended - thank you. Looking forward to your book on Segoe - only four months to ...

Thank you for checking - it is now available on Amazon UK. I have ordered a copy.

I am really pleased to hear that the diagrams have been improved - I was struggling. I don't have any problem with Shuei, but the change to colour lowered the quality and I found those in Kamakura to be unreadable ...

This book is not yet available on the UK site, I checked on the 9th, 10th and again today the 11th. However it looks like I could order it on the USA site and it would ship to the UK.

It looks like John has gone on holiday, which has resulted in the Gremlins appearing and their well known quote "it ...

Kikuchi Yasuro chose and commented on Yamashita's games in Chapter 3 of the Hinoki Press book "Breakthrough Attacking Power Yamashita-Style". In chaper 4 Kikuchi briefly talks about studying at the Ryokusei Gakuen "our policy is to have the students devise their own study methods and we do not ...

The first book that looks at mistakes amateurs make that I suggest is:

"Aiming at Shodan - Three faults that hold you back" - there is a very thorough review at:

https://senseis.xmp.net/?AimingAtShodanThreeFaultsThatHoldYouBack

This was published in January 1996 - Gaku Yazuru - was a 5 dan ...

I first heard of Kikuchi, along with Bunsho Murakami and Harada maybe 50 years ago - I refrained from giving John F a "like" for posting news of his death.....but it's news that needs to be shared, so thank you.

I bought a copy of the book of his games some years ago, flicking through it this ...

Dieter - There are a number of books written by professionals along the lines of what are the key things that amateurs don't know, I think their topics chosen are subjective but based on their experience of teaching for say 20 or 30 years.

I think your analysis of the 3 top mistakes in 100 of your ...

Kanji List for five "easy" Japanese Go Books

The five books that I chose have between 572 and 660 unique kanji. I combined the lists and analsyed their frequency, with a knowledge of 356 kanji you will recognise 95% of the kanji in these books.

ISBN：978-4-8399-5347-8 僕が本当に伝えたかった上達の鉄則 武宮正樹 Takemiya ...

I have been asked what PDF Go books do I recommend (easy question but difficult answer) - I suggest it all depends on:

How motivated are you?
Your knowledge of written Japanese - do you know the basics? Have you read Richard Hunter's "Just Enough Japanese" series?
Topic - does it excite you?
Your ...