Books you would like to own or see written

[snorri]

- go game psychology

+1 on that.

John Fairbairn posts a number of references to chess literature. Browsing the chess options in English, there are lot of books on psychology, gamesmanship, calculation. (It's still small fraction of all chess books, but since there are more chess books in English than go books, there is at least a selection.) Almost all the English go books I have are about what's on the board, not what's in your head. I've found very little in Go on practical aspects of competition, such as time management. I don't know if this is a cultural thing or if authors don't feel such books will sell.

[oren]

Read!?!? I just collect the books for the pretty pictures.
Either Korean or Japanese is fine. Just something I would like to have.
14 volumes sound like it would have massive shipping fees though. I'll have to do some nosing around and check prices.

The shipping isn't so bad since it's ordering a few books that the shipping is a dominating factor. I usually try to order 10+ at a time to make it worthwhile.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%9C%80%E4%B8 ... _2?ie=UTF8

This is the first one. It's not a cheap set, but I enjoy the problems and solutions. There is a bit of text used for alternate solutions and failures. The opening book also has quite a bit of text to explain some paths. For the most part you can just use knowledge of 'correct', 'failure', and 'alternate' with the pictures though.

The Korean would almost certainly be cheaper.

[Wasiqi]

Thank you oren. I will check it out.

[Bantari]

I would like to seem more books like what JF is doing - stories behind, biographies, stuff like that. Of coures, all the "Read It And Improve" books are important too, but I feel these will be requested anyhow... so I vote for the "around the game" subjects.

[Bill Spight]

oren, what in endgame books lets you sleep and what would you consider interesting?

The English Endgame book put me to sleep pretty well.

Books on endgame calculations I have
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%A2%81%E3%81 ... 16&sr=1-15

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%8E%8B%E9%8A ... 382&sr=1-1

Both are very good books, but you have to put a lot of work into them. I got through a lot of O Meien's and just glanced at the beginning of Ishida Yoshio's. I'll probably get back to them after other books on my queue that are more practical/interesting.

I can recommend the O Meien book. I have not read the Ishida, but older yose books were not as good about computation as O Meien's. For instance, he does not try to calculate double sente plays.

[oren]

I can recommend the O Meien book. I have not read the Ishida, but older yose books were not as good about computation as O Meien's. For instance, he does not try to calculate double sente plays.

Thanks for the recommendation. I think I remember picking it up on a review by John Fairbairn, but I didn't have as much to compare it to.