Old fuseki vs new fuseki

This is the next book in John Fairbairn's series on famous games. This volume examines the game in which Go Seigen played Honinbo Shusai by starting with a 3-3 point play, a 4-4 point, and a stone on the center point (tengen). Fairbairn provides the usual very thorough commentary as well as background on the game situation and both players. There is a full discussion of the theory and development of New Fuseki with numerous examples of its use at the time. number of examples of it from actual games at the time. Fairbairn also provides by far the most thorough discussion in English of the controversy over whether Shusai’s decisive move in the middle game was discovered by one of his pupils during an adjournment. 133 pages.
Price 17,00 euro
Date in stock 6-6-2011

Robert Jasiek: Joseki, volume 2, Strategy

From the back of the book:
This most complete Go strategy book ever explains over 200 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
Date in stock 11-6-2011

Go review Archive

The complete collection of Go Review on 3 DVD's.
Go Review was a Go magazine in English issued from 1961-1977 by the Nihon Kiin. Total about 15000 pages of history, games, problems.......
The dvd's are indexed and can be searched. Suitable for windows, mac and linux.
Price for set of 3 Dvd's euro 120,00 Date in stock 10-3-2010

Graded go problems for dan players volume 4

300 life and death problems
4-dan to 7-dan
price: 19,50 euro.
date in stock: 8-2-2011

Japanese prints and the world of go

Exceptional book on Japanese prints with go theme. price: 70 euro.
date in stock: 8-2-2011

Fundamental principles, Yilun Yang

Hard cover edition price reduced from 62,50 to 32,50. As long as stocks lasts
date 7-1-2011

The meijin's retirement game

John Fairbairn

The game between Honinbo Shusai and Kitani Minoru. This game is famous because of Kawabata's novel "The master of go". It contains a biography of Shusai and some short notes about Kitani. (For Kitani's biography see: kamakura). The main section is the game itself, with extensive commentary. The commenents are drawn from many sources. Next to the comments, the events surrounding the game are narrated.
price 18,00 euro
In stock from 17-12-2010

Fuseki dictionary volume 4

The last volume from the set has finally been printed. It contains sections on:
Parallel models,
facing 3-4 and other combinations,
5-3, 5-4 and 3-3 points

price 17,00 euro
in stock from 17-12-2010

Attacking and defending moyos

Mastering the basics volume 7, Kiseido
by Rob van Zeijst and Richard Bozulich
First book devoted to this subject. In the first part 13 basic principles are explained. The second part consists of example games. The third and largest part is problems.
price 19,50
In stock from 7-12-2010

The playing styles of seven top Pros

Yuan Zhou, Slate and Shell.
You are probably familiar with the thin books by this author about 1 pro each. This book is much thicker (269 pages). It contains 2 games each from sakata, Takagawa, Fujisawa Shuko, Rin Kaiho, Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun, Cho Hunhyun.
price 23,00 euro
In stock from 7-12-2010

Calendar 2011

6 reproductions of japanese woodblockprints with go-theme
price 14 euro + shipping (netherlands 6,75; Europe 12,00)
In stock from 13-11-2010

100 tips for amateur players 3

Youngsun Yoon

tips on the following subjects: Capturing race, endgame and "typical amateur mistakes".
price 17,50
In stock from 1-11-2010

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.
In stock from 9-9-2010

New Moves

Alexander Dinerchtein & An Younggil

Dinerchtein studies unknown variations in joseki. He plays these moves also in important tournaments. Some of these moves can be considered trick moves. This book is therefore a must for aspiring top players. For others players it is interesting to see how in simple joseki a totally unexpected move can lead to surprising variations. The value of the book is in the way these variations are judged by professionals.

Published by Slate and Shell, softcover, euro 18,00.
In stock from 9-9-2010

9-Dan Showdown

Another top book by John Fairbairn. This volume is about the games between Go Seigen and Fujisawa Kuranosuke.
Slate and shell
Price 36 euro.

The best game records of 2009

Collection of 50 professional games from 2009.
Oromedia
Price 17 euro

Understanding Dan Level Play

by: Yuan Zhou

Zhou comments his games from the presidents cup tournament in Korea. The aim of the commentary is teaching. There are many diagrams in the book, so it can be read without a board.
This book features games from the following European players: price 16 euro.

Baduk for beginners

Kim Sung-rae/ Sung Ki-chang

Baduk is the Korean word for the game called "go" in English.

Excellent beginners book for the serious beginner. With 374 pages this book may scare off the casual player, but if you intend to reach beyond that level you will find a wealth of practical information to improve your game. Mr Kim uses many diagrams and few words to explain. Each chapter of explanations is followed by exercises so you can test whether you understood.

publisher: global baduk
euro 19,00.

This is Haengma

Kim Sung-rae is a famous teacher of baduk. In this book he explains what haengma is. the level is comparable with the 'elementary go series' (easy in the beginning - hard in the end).
Publisher: global baduk. Price 17 euro.

The Master of Haengma

Haengma are in this book the basic moves for development of a stone: Diagonal haengma (= kosumi),knight's haengma (keima), large knight's (okeima), one-space haengma (on space jump),two space haengma, large diagonal haengma. This book is about the correct use of these moves in the middle game. A problem collection of whole board middle game positions for dan players.
publisher: Oromedia, writer: Baek Sung-Ho, translator: Diana Koszegi
price euro 19,00.

Creative life and death volume 2

Problems for training reading for dan players.
Oromedia, euro 17,50

Magic on the first line

Problem collection with theme the fist line. The problems are grouped by level: 15-5 kyu 5 kyu - 1 kyu, 1kyu-dan.
Publisher: Slate and Shell. Writer: Nakayama Noriyuki.price euro 14,00.

Graded go problems for dan players

Kiseido has published the first 3 volumes of this new series. price: 18,50 euro each.

Final summit

10 game match between Go Seigen and Takagawa. Extensive comments and biographical notes.
John Fairbairn, slate and shell, price 26 euro.

The Go Consultants

John Fairbairn, T. Mark Hall

150 pages of comment on one game! A match between 2 teams Suzuki/Segoe against Kitani/Go Seigen. The game was played on 1 board, the players were allowed to discuss the moves, and even show on to board, with their teammates. The game was played in 1935.

This gives a unique insight of what professionals think about during their game.

Published by Slate and Shell, softcover, euro 17,00.

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