21st Century new openings vol 1

Kim Sung-Rae

There is a Baduk proverb: Josekis are not for memorizing, but for forgetting The point is not to memorize the order of the moves, but to understand the meaning of each move in a joseki. This is what 21st Century New Openings does. In its 17 chapters, many of the modern josekis are analyzed in detail with emphasis on the reasons the crucial moves are made. This book is divided into three parts; the first part is on joseki, the second on joseki and its relationship to the fuseki, and the third a summary of the new patterns that are currently played by professionals in the beginning of the game. Every pattern is shown as it occurred in some recent professional game, so as to help the reader understand it more easily. Anyone who plays Baduk can understand this book, but it is especially recommended to those hoping to become professional players.

This is most international go book ever:
written by a Korean
translated by a Hungarian (Diana Koszegi)
printed in Japan
published by yutopian in the USA and Het Paard in the Netherlands.

380 pages, price 21 euro.


21st Century new openings vol 2

Kim Sung-Rae

Part 1: new Joseki
Part 2: Joseki in relation to fuseki
part 3: fuseki currently played by topplayers

400 pages (printed in China) price 21 euro.


The Korean style of Baduk

Kim Sung-Rae

This book by the same author is published by Oromedia. It is also part of this series. Part 1: Avalanche Jungseok (= Nadare Joseki)
Part 2: Mini-Chinese (fuseki).
About 280 pages of variantions with short to the point comments. Of more than 100 professional games the first 50 moves are shown as illustration of the theory.

Printed in Korea, price 20 euro


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