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From: sakw@cvaxa.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: net.games.go
Subject: Re: Go Books and Boards by mail order (looong msg)
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 08:24:10 EDT
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Neal Gafter in <11202@rochester> gives a list of Go Books, which include
> S-89 $7.00      Go: International Handbook and Dictionary (Tilley)
> 		(I don't have this)

You should definitely get this one.  Armed with it, you can tackle Go books
written in Japanese, especially those containing Go problems. The ones I have
found most useful are the 3-vol "Tsume Go" (Life & Death problems) set (Vol 1
- easy to Vol 3 - hard) and the 2-vol "Tesuji Dictionary" (problems graded A,
B, C). Don't be put off by the Japanese text - you only need to understand the
problem (black/white to play) and the answer (black/white lives/dies/gets
seki/ko) - the positions (problem and answer) are given as diagrams (but watch
out! - there is sometimes a "failure" diagram and a "success"). I can't follow
the commentary, but then I find I get more out of my attempts to solve the
problem if I can figure out why my "solution" fails & theirs work. (If all
else fails, you could ask your nearest friendly dan-level player......)
-- 
Sak Wathanasin, U of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK
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