Battle Strategies

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Learn to play Go the elegant game that has enthralled millions of people around the world for millennia In Volume 4 of this award winning series, professional Go player Janice Kim 3 dan teaches you the essential principles and techniques involved with Go fighting that will raise your level of play from invasions, reductions, running battles, and contact fights, to life and death situations and capturing races. Best Read [ Battle Strategies ] author [ Janice Kim ] – kino-fada.fr The fourth volume in Kim and Hyun s Learn to Play Go series, aimed at lower kyu rank players, was muchhelpful than volume three There are many diagrams of realistic play situations, no longer the simple and obvious ones of previous volumes, but still simple enough for a lower ranking player like me to grasp We are not yet into the esoterica of advanced go, or dan level problems Most of the problems were challe...This book covers quite a bit of material which, not surprisingly, was difficult to readily absorb and immediately transfer onto the playing board I think the last three volumes in this series will be reference books to which the reader refers back rather than novels which are read, digested, and not picked up again Additionally, the material would undoubtedly be interpreted differently by the same reader after they ve played X number of games and gained experience I ll read the last book just This book covers quite a bit of material which, not surprisingly, was difficult to readily absorb and immediately transfer onto the playing board I think the last three volumes in this series will be reference books to which the reader refers back rather than novels which are read, digest...I was so ready for this book in the series Finally, very practical topics such as invasion and reduction, running battles, and capturing races I can t say I absorbed every nuance of the chapters on ko fighting and killing shapes but the foundations are well laid I m essentially ready to drill tsumego until throw ins and pins and vital points are second nature A theory book can only do so much I highly recommend this series and the game of Go It is quickly becoming one of the most I was so ready for this book in the series Finally, very practical topics such as invasion and reduction, running battles, and capturing races I can t say I absorbed every nuance of the chapters on ko fighting and killing shapes but the foundations are well ...I like the test at the end but I think the overall strategy isdifficult to read than tsumego type problems of which there are an abundance so thevaluable tests would have beenbattle strategies All in all, I feel the battle strategies chamber should be longer since i...Skv l s rie knih pro za naj c hr e kr lovsk hry GOAnother nice incremental update Gettingadvanced, staying accessible.Very nice volume, improvement over the previous one.After a great start to this series, I was somewhat disappointed with volume 3 since I thought it lacked substance That flaw is completely corrected here The authors provide us with a manual packed with valuable information for conducting our battles The material is still at a beginners level, but it will probably be useful even for some single digit kyu players at least those below 5 7 kyu.Before jumping into the tactical section of this Very nice volume, improvement over the previous one.After a great start to this series, I was somewhat disappointed with volume 3 since I thought it lacked substance That flaw is completely corrected here The authors provide us with a manual packed with valuable information for conducting our battles The material is still at a beginners level, but it will probably be useful even for some single digit kyu players at least those below 5 7 kyu.Before jumping into the tactical section of this book, we are presented with an explanation of the im...This 4th part of Janice Kim s series Learn to play Go is clearly a level higher than the previous volumes It discusses the middle game in part I, and Life and Death problems in part II The good news is that it contains a lot of useful knowledge The bad news is that this knowledge is not easily converted to skill The reason is that Kim presents about 50 different battle strategies, some of them closely related, but most of them not so related at least so it seems The book does not This 4th part of Janice Kim s series Learn to play Go is clearly a level higher than the previous volumes It discusses the middle game in part I, and Life and Death problems in part II The good news is that it contains a lot of useful knowledge The bad news is that this knowledge is not easily converted to skill The reason is that Kim presents about 50 different...I am not a strong go player, but I have read a lot of beginner and elementary go books, and the Learn to Play Go series is my favorite I have not seen another elementary go book which is clearer and easier to understand Nothing else comes close in conveying the necessary concepts of go and illustrating them at a beginner s level, it s as simple as that Especially helpful is the very copious use of diagrams You re never asked to dissect half a game of numbered stones at a glance, rather, I am not a strong go player, but I have read a lot of beginner and elementary go books, and the Le...The fourth volumn of Janice Kim s series on learning Go, covers attack and defence, creating life for a group of stones, killing a group, and basic middle game stratagies and manouvers However, the middle game is the most chaotic time of the game and it is very difficult to expla...

Battle Strategies
  • 14 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 164 pages
  • 0964479648
  • Janice Kim
  • Battle Strategies