Description: Essential Life & Death 2 is part of the Essential Life & Death Series that is used as workbooks in private go schools in Korea. Though it might be seen as an addendum to the Level Up Series, it certainly can be used as a standalone product for anyone looking to study life and death.

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Description: Ishida and Davies lay down some basic principles, ideas, and tactics for attack and defense. There are a lot of examples from professional play, along with opportunities for you to practice what you learn.

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Description: Level Up 3 is part of the Level Up! Series that serves as a workbook in private go schools in Korea. Though designed for children, the content and practice provided is invaluable for adults and children alike.

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Life and Death

Description: In this volume of the Elementary Go Series, Davies teaches common shapes that players will encounter in their games along with practice problems to train the reader’s life and death skills.

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Level Up 2

Description: Level Up 2 is part of the Level Up! Series that serves as a workbook in private go schools in Korea. Though designed for children, the content and practice provided is invaluable for adults and children alike.

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Book Details

Title, The Direction of Play
Author, Takeo Kajiwara
Translators, John Fairbairn and The Ishi Press Staff
Publisher, Kiseido
Published, “1st Edition - March 1979”
Language, English
ISBN, 978-4-896574-26-2
Length, 250 Pages

Table of Content

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Direction of Play in the Opening: The Corner Stones
• Chapter 2: The Early Stages Are Decisive
• Chapter 3: Move Two Lost This Game
• Chapter 4: The Professional Approach
• Chapter 5: The Direction of Play and Joseki
• Chapter 6: Once Upon a Game
• Chapter 7: Test Yourself
• Chapter 8: The Direction of Play for Fighting

Synopsis

1. An excellent, although a bit advanced, book on direction of play.
2. Fills a much needed gap in understanding the opening and fuseki as a whole.
3. Requires a basic understanding of whole board thinking to really appreciate and understand the explanations.

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Tesuji

Description: In this volume of the Elementary Go Series, Davies lays out the some basic tesuji that every player should learn along with practice problems and different contexts for teach tesuji.

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Level Up 1

Description: Level Up 1 is part of the Level Up! Series that serves as a workbook in private go schools in Korea. Though designed for children, the content and practice provided is invaluable for adults and children alike.

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Overall Rating: 8 / 10 Ponnuki

Basic Information

• Title: The Chinese Opening
• Author: Yuan Zhou
• Publisher: Slate & Shell
• Publication Date: 2013
• Page Length: 184 pages

Synopsis

• A great introductory book to the Chinese Opening.
• Explanations are kept at a high level and thus allows for easy reading.
• Appropriate for 10 kyu and stronger.
• Recommended for serious players.

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Overall Rating: 9 / 10 Ponnuki

Basic Information

• Title: Positional Judgment: High-Speed Game Analysis
• Author: Cho Chikun
• Publisher: Kiseido
• Publication Date: December 1989
• Page Length: 182 pages

Synopsis

• A great book on positional judgment when it comes to whole board thinking.
• Utilizes multiple choice questions along with example games to help illustrate his points.
• Requires a basic level of endgame sequences for the estimations to make sense.
• Appropriate for 6 kyu and stronger.
• Recommended for serious players.

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