Life In 19x19

Can anyone recommend some good life or death problem books for beginners?

If you already know your rank telling us might help, for complete beginners I'd say start with:
Graded Go problems vol. 1 + 2

They are not all life and death problems, but cover a wide range of problems if that helps you =)

Sure: The Graded Go Problems for Beginners series by Kano Yoshinori. There are 4 books, and they offer problems for all aspects of the game. The first volume might seem pretty easy, but it offers a good introduction to lots of basic ideas.

Once you get good at basic L&D and go forwards in your journey, tsumego.tasuki.org is an indispensible resource.

Also graded go problems for beginners is a great book; I was reccomended it at like 25k but only went theough it at around 12k. The book took me like 30 minutes total and I made some stupid mistakes for not thinking, but man I wish I knew all of that when it was reccomended to me.

Cho Chikun’s "Encyclopedia of Life and Death" is also a good resource.

Some people have good suggestions, I second the suggestion of ggpfb.

But I couldn't resist adding that when I first saw the thread title, my first thought was it isn't life _or_ death but life _and_ death. But my second thought was actually your way makes more sense, since things can only be alive or dead, not both.

yoyoma wrote: my first thought was it isn't life _or_ death but life _and_ death. But my second thought was actually your way makes more sense, since things can only be alive or dead, not both.

Alive in ko?

yoyoma wrote:since things can only be alive or dead, not both.

http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/30101

Seki is the border between life and death.

Alright I'll check the ggpfb books. Thanks to all.