Life In 19x19

kaimat wrote:Could someone who has this book let me know how many pages it has? Slate and Shell isn't very consistent with including page totals in its descriptions.

270 pages: http://gobooks.nemir.org/books/ssag001.html

Its a very good book.

I want to see common trick moves in handi openings against black and the apropos responses!!!!

English translations...

I'd like to see two books or book series

1) A three to four volumed series of books with commented games of professional players that cover all or almost all aspects of the game of go. Last month we had an interesting discussion about which pro players would come into question:

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On about 1000 pages it would be possible to select 120 to 150 matches that cover all the listed players and aspects of the game (so that's six to eight pages per game).


2) A book that concentrates on damezumari (shortage of liberties). Many times I have heard that go players have difficulties in recognizing shortage of liberties in life-and-death problems and tesuji problems as well as on the board (including myself). What I would like to see is a book that has three main chapters:

The first one would cover some theory about different types of damezumari

The second one would cover a tsumego training program that drills you in recognizing the basic damezumari shapes

The third one would cover a training program with tsumego that include damezumari and are a bit more complex to strengthen the reading.

Some further ideas:

3) A Dictionary of Basic Moves

like this one - which I don't own, but would like to own judging from the review

Not sure whether it contains basic moves like hane (or whether it analysis when to hane and when to extend), attachments that arise after invasions etc., but the book in my imagination should also include such basic moves.


4) A Dictionary of Basic Tesuji

Well, we already have some tesuji dictionaries, but the one I think about would include the path how such situations arise, a bit like Sakata's Tesuji and Anti-suji of Go (which is OOP), or like the Encyclopedia of Maek judging from the review

5) A book that shows the way how to sacrifice stones, e.g. like Iwamoto Kaoru's The Magic of Sacrifice (vol. 17, OOP).

6) A book that shows techniques of inavding, e.g. like Kuwahara Munehisa'a The Techniques of Invading (vol. 42, OOP). We alreaedy have some books on this topic (such as Keshi and Uchikomi, Enclosure Josekis and Get Strong at Invading), however these seem to be rather an unsorted collection of samples instead of a presentation of techniques that show how and where to invade.

7) A book that focuses on creating and eliminating ko threats.

8) A book that focuses on aji: how to detect aji potential, to create/eliminate aji