After Opening by Kim Sung-rae

[Ember]

Hi,

has anyone already bought the above mentioned book? I'm really interested in buying it as I found so much valuable (and well presented!) information in the first one, but couldn't find any sample pages for the new book. Is it as good as the first volume? A table of contents would be very helpful, too.

Thanks in advance!

Ember

[tchan001]

From the preface of "After Openings"

"After Openings" is the story AFTER corner enclosers and side extensions. It is well known how to make enclosers and entensions, but is lesser known how to make aji and attack them in detail. You will like them when you know the variations. I was also happy when I found some variations I didn't know before.

Table of Content
1. Part 1: 4-4 Point
2. Part 2: 3-4 Point
3. Part 3: Side

Not that the TOC is very useful to you so I will expand it into a little review of this 248 page book for you.

Part 1: 4-4 Point
- Shape 1: After A Keima Extension
- Shape 2: After Keima Encloser
- Shape 3: After The Large Keima Extension
- Shape 4: After the Large Keima Extension With the Kosumi Encloser

Part 2: 3-4 Point
- Shape 5: After Keima Encloser
- Shape 6: After The Ogeima Shimari
- Shape 7: After One Space Jump Shimari with Extension

Part 3: Side
- Shape 8: After a two space extension
- Shape 9: After a three space extension

Each of the above shapes is explained with a selection of possible starting moves each of which is explained via a series of commented diagrams of likely sequences. Then examples from professional games are referenced to show how professionals have handled such situations. (It doesn't list exactly which professional games are referenced other than the names of the two pros. You'd need to use a go game database to figure out which exact games are used in the book if you are so inclined.) As explained in the quoted preface, the book is about how to make aji and attack enclosers and extensions.

I bought my copy from Yutopian.

[Ember]

Thank you very much for your effort and for summing the content up, tchan! Since a few people seemed interested in this book but no one could provide any information, you were kind of my last (secret) hope.

Anyways, the content looks really good so I'll definitely get it in the near future. Until then I guess I'll poke my head into After Joseki again.

[skydyr]

Is this primarily a book of enclosure joseki, then?

[tchan001]

I haven't really read the book other than giving it a quick glance to briefly show what it is about to Ember, so it's difficult for me to say whether it is primarily about enclosure joseki. I can only comfortably say that it shows a lot of commented diagrams of likely sequences for each of the shapes covered and I have already listed what they are in my previous post.