The Dragon Style

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The Dragon Style is the third volume in the popular Learn to Play Go series Topics include seven deadly Go sins and eight secrets of winning play Real games even, high, and low handicap are analyzed in depth Includes a self testing section and an extensive glossary of Go terminology. New Download [ The Dragon Style ] By [ Janice Kim ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This third book in the Learn to Play Go series, which is supposed to bring you to about the 10 12 kyu level, I did not find as useful as the first two books We re now at the level where you need to learn practical strategy and tactics, and much of the book is a recitation of terms and some illustration of b...The book starts with a list of Do s and a list of Don ts Except for Drive towards your thickness , most of the items are rather obvious Yet, the combination of them can be quite confusing for a beginning player Hold the fort Do 8 But don t waste a move Do 6 And don t overplay Don t 3 Be sure to stay connected Do 4 But do not blunder Don t 2 The clue is of course that a beginning player doesn t know which Do or Don t is taking priority in a given situation My biggest The book starts with a list of Do s and a list of Don ts Except for Drive towards your thickness , most of the items are rather obvious Yet, the combination of them can be quite confusing for a beginning player Hold the fort Do 8 But don t waste a move Do 6 And don t overplay Don t 3 Be sure to stay connected Do 4 But do not blunder Don t 2 The clue is of course that a beginning player doesn t know which Do or Don t is taking priority in a given situation My biggest gripe with this section is that it fails to offer a coherent thought process to judge a position on the board, yet this is what is needed most at this stage in the series The second part goes over some actual 19x19 games, with and without handicap stones In itself this is a useful way of teaching, but I often found the commentary of the authors rather shallow...Well after taking the quiz I scored at the very top of Average which means I must have learned something from this book but the lessons were so subtle and so short most of this volume is commentary on demonstrative games that I can t be certain There are still many tactical concepts mentioned quickly here that I need to either work out for myself or see explained in detail Overall this book left me feeling less confident about concepts which go beyond basic tactics but it did fill in a Well after taking the quiz I scored at the very top of Average which means I must have learned something from this book but the lessons were so subtle and so short most of this volume is commentary on demonstrative games that I can t be certain There are still many tactical concepts mentioned quickly here that I n...A nice variety of things and easy to read First there are several bits of advice, many of which amount to saying don t underestimate your opponent and remain calm obvious, but can t really be repeated enough I d be several stones stronger if I could do this Then there are commentaries on three games even, 3 and 9 stone handicaps Several pages are then devoted to showing where handicap stones go, which seems a little out of place this could have even gone in the first volume of the A nice variety of things and easy to read First there are several bits of adv...Three stars shouldn t be seen as a negative rating, this book does just what it sets out to do build upon the teachings of the first two while introducingadvanced topics like playing style and theory It s just that as the topics becomeadvanced, it becomes clear that strictly reading a book on Go is only ...A few principles, rather abstract this time, and three quality games with extensive, beginner friendly explanation Again, some may be unimpressed, but this is a very useful step to see how the parts of the game work together, where...This volume has its pluses and minuses.As you can see by my rating, I have mixed emotions about this volume Let me start with the bad points The first part of the book goes over Seven Dangers and Eight Secrets, which would be a good idea if the instruction was at the level it should have been In this section we just get an enumeration of this we should and shouldn t do when playing The comments are really brief and do not really go much above and beyond what we already received in the This volume has its pluses and minuses.As you can see by my rating, I have mixed emotions about this volume Let me start with the bad points The first part of the book goes over Seven Dangers and Eight Secrets, which would be a good idea if the instruction was at the level it should have been In this section we just get an enumeration of this we should and shouldn t do when playing The comments are really brief and do not really go much above and beyond what we already received in the previous volumes I have actually read a book that is much better at conveying this same concepts, especially the misconceptions beginners usually have about the game If you are interested in that spec...This book begins with the seven dangers and eight secrets of Go The idea, of course, is to avoid the first group and practice the second The problems is that the dangers are either vague or obvious, and the secrets are all very obvious if you have read any other book on Go The eight secrets hardly warrant the use of the word secret.Much like the second volume in this series, there are plenty of diagram with explanation for each Unfortunately, the explanations often leave the less This book begins with the seven dangers and eight secrets of Go The idea, of course, is to avoid the first group and practice the second The problems is that the dangers are either vague or obvious, and the secrets are all very obvious if you have read any other book on Go The eight secrets hardly warrant the use of the word secret.Much like the second volume i...It just didn t feel like as strong of a book compared to volumes 1 2.The lessons what to do and what not to do are only briefly touched upon and don t find their way into any of the game commentaries.It seemed weird to have an explantation of the handicap and ranking system in the third volume It feels like it belongs as you are first being introduced to the game.This book also includes some For the experts sidebars, which doesn t make a lot of sense because well, the book is called It just didn t feel like as strong of a book compared to volumes 1 2.The lessons what to do and what not to do are only briefly touched upon and don t find their way into any of the game commentaries.It seemed weird to have an explan...This book is a step down from the compendium of practical knowledge that was Book 2.Many of the points made by the first section are trivial pieces of advice, or vague aphorisms and the information is not as directly applicable I really enjoyed the sections on vulgar moves plays that force an opponent to strengthen his structures but don t actually gain you anything , dual l...

The Dragon Style
  • English
  • 03 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • 096447963X
  • Janice Kim
  • The Dragon Style