Life In 19x19

Just got an update of the SmartGo Books app and noticed that Davies' L&D and Tesuji are now included. Thank you for continuing to make me re-buy books I already own! (Actually, they can't be purchased yet, but I imagine that's just a delay on Apple's end and will resolve itself within hours or a day.)

Here's hoping for Attack and Defense! (When? )

Mivo wrote:Here's hoping for Attack and Defense! (When? )

Soon.

Soon for A&D sounds great!

By the way, I still can't buy those two. The button says "available soon". Is that something on my end or is it the same for everyone?

Mivo wrote:Soon for A&D sounds great!

By the way, I still can't buy those two. The button says "available soon". Is that something on my end or is it the same for everyone?

Same here :/ I have the printed Tesuji, and I'm not sure I want to buy L&D... But they show as "available soon" likewise

Mivo wrote:By the way, I still can't buy those two. The button says "available soon". Is that something on my end or is it the same for everyone?

It's the same for everyone. From Anders' twitter feed:

“Tesuji” and “Life and Death” delayed as I forgot to have those in-app purchases reviewed with the updated app. Sorry about that!
https://twitter.com/smartgo/status/232666142743875585

He's at the congress, so hopefully they'll be available soon after he returns.

imabuddha wrote:

Mivo wrote:Here's hoping for Attack and Defense! (When? )

Soon.

I vote for 1001 Life-and-Death-problems.

Nagilum wrote:I vote for 1001 Life-and-Death-problems.

I can't disagree with that. Would be nice to have that title in SmartGo Books for the convenience of doing the problems interactively.

Attack and Defense is now available. As well as the first two volumes of The Workshop Lectures, 501 Tesuji Problems, and many more, for a total of 42 books: http://www.smartgo.com/booksbycategory.htm

More good books in the pipeline.

smartgo wrote:Attack and Defense is now available. As well as the first two volumes of The Workshop Lectures, 501 Tesuji Problems, and many more, for a total of 42 books: http://www.smartgo.com/booksbycategory.htm

More good books in the pipeline.

No spoilers about these good books?

RBerenguel wrote:No spoilers about these good books?

Next book is "Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume 2" (Kiseido). Other than that, I'll just mention that SmartGo Books will be adding four books from Yutopian later this year. Don't want to spoil the surprise any more than that.

The latest app update has added “Get Strong at the Endgame” by Richard Bozulich. Lots of great problems in this one!

My problem with Get Strong at the Endgame is there are all these problems at the beginning, and I'm supposed to record how I think the board will go, and that just seems like a huge pain. But you're not supposed to read the middle of the book until you've done those initial problems because you're supposed to see how much you've improved. So the book sits on my shelf unread.

Fix that problem with your newfangled software, and I will be your biggest fan.

hyperpape wrote:Fix that problem with your newfangled software, and I will be your biggest fan.

Actually the answers for the first section are presented along with the problems in the electronic version. My feeling is that working though the problems in that section & just noting which you get wrong is sufficient. Then after studying parts 2 & 3, try the first section again & see how you do on those you missed the first time.

IAC, don't let that book gather dust! Unless you're already an endgame expert you'll get improvement from it even if you don't bother to do the before/after comparison.