Robert Jasiek: Joseki, volume 1, fundamentals

From the back of the book:
The revolutionary quality and great amount of contents creates the most profound reference to the fundamentals and their application to josekis. This book invents a classification of move types, meanings of stones and development directions. Systematic structure, careful definitions of terms and many principles provide us with a complete and easily applicable language to guide our thinking and planning. As a consequence, players of all levels can broaden their knowledge and improve their playing strength

Professionals from China, Korea and Japan have a difficult time when they come to Europe. Not only do they have to adjust to the lack of respect they are used to in their homeland, also they are not prepared for the fact that pupils ask them "why" a move is good. In the Far East, go is taught like a language a child learns from its mother. No grammar. As we all know, this proves to be very effective for young children. Westeners learn go at a later age and often find this way of learning unsatisfactory. They want to have grammar. This Western style book explains how to study go and its fundamentals in a more analytical way.

Robert Jasiek is a strong European player, well known on the internet as a rules expert

Price euro 26,50.

Robert Jasiek: Joseki, volume 2, Strategy

From the back of the book:
This most complete Go strategy book ever explains over 300 principles, definitions, concepts and methods. The joseki topic develops a general understanding of strategic planning, raising it to a new level of quality. Aji, influence, thickness, playing elsewhere, timing and many other strategic concepts are invaluable during all game phases. How to make strategic choises from taking sente to sacrificing, tools for measuring everything from efficiency via urgency to mobility and analysis methods such as positional judgement and tewari all greatly reduce the complexity of decision making.

price euro 26,50

Robert Jasiek: Capturing races 1, Two Basic groups

Ask an average danplayer 'what is a capturing race or semeai'. You will get an answer like 'a local fight between 2 groups that have no 2 eyes'. Robert Jasiek will not find that good enough. Do you mean group or string, what is an eye. He has developed a system of concepts and rules to describe this kind of situations. This volume treats the general principles, and gives a complete listing of all possible variations for 2 groups. Het boek kan als instructieboek en als dictionary worden gelezen. For those interested in Go theory there is also the chapter 'Correcting mistakes in Literature'.

price euro 28,00