Tesuji (Elementary Go Series, #3)

Posted on 27 June 2018 by James Davies

Tesujis are the tactics of short range combat in the game of go This volume presents over three hundred examples and problems of them, aimed at training the reader to read and spot the right play in all sorts of tactical situations It covers a wide range of material while concentrating on fundamentals its problems manage to be both hard enough to challenge and easy enough to solve, and there are enough of them to keep the most avid busy. Best Read [ Tesuji (Elementary Go Series, #3) ] By [ James Davies ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is a great book chock full of techniques as well as problems to test yourself on.Some tesuji tactics can be recognised and immediately played in game However many others requiresubtle execution and are harder to recognise in game unfortunately this book describes those mostly by example and it s up to the reader to try to extract their general principles Indeed many tesuji reappear under different functions without their critical properties highlighted.The book can be heavy going This is a great book chock full of techniques as well as problems to test yourself on.Some tesuji tactics can be recognised and immediately played in game However many others requiresubtle execution and are harder to recognise in game unfortunately this book describes those mostly...Combinations are the heart of chess, as they say, and similarly tesuji literally, skillful moves are the heart of Go This book gives you a nice introduction Here s an example of a tesuji, the crane s nest , which is about as basic as it gets it s sort of the Go equivalent of the smothered mate Recall that, in Go, you capture by surrounding the opponent s stones Black has just played 1, trying to connect the three stones on the left to the circled stone on the right White now counters w Combinations are the heart of chess, as they say, and similarly tesuji literally, skillful moves are the heart of Go This book gives you a nice introduction Here s an example of a tesuji, the crane s nest , which is about as basic as it gets it s sort of the Go equivalent of the smothered mate Recall that, in Go, you capture by surrounding the opponent s stones Black has just played 1, trying to connect the three stones on the left to the circled stone on the right White now counters wi...A superb book to teach the tactics of Go.It s almost worth a 5 but falls down just slightly in that it presents dozens of different techniques, but doesn t really explain how to choose between them, so can leave you paralysed by too much choice But practice all these problems and sooner or later you will find yourself outthinki...Amazing There is so much to learn in here A 5d friend of mine gave me this, Attack and Defense, and Kageyama s Fundamentals He said that I can basically keep re reading each and they re all I ll ever need While I ve read numerous other books, I do think that these three have been the most enlightening and helpful books I ve read.I first worked through this cover to cover from 15 10k, and then again from 9 7k There are parts I ve fully absorbed, but so much of it is fuzzy or just didn t stick Amazing There is so much to learn in here A 5d friend of mine gave me this, Attack and Defense, and Kageyama s Fundamentals He said that I can basically keep re reading each and they re all I ll eve...A must for anybody learning go I had already been playing for a while when I read it, yet it still had tactics to offer And even if you know all the tesuji in the world there are plenty of puzzles to solve.I have read this book maybe 3 times cover to cover, but found it muchuseful...3 in a great series of books for beginner Go players that is, players who have mastered the basic rules but are pretty much at sea when it comes to actual strategy My only complaint is that this book forces me to think so hard that I end up getting a headache when I try to readthan one chapter at...This is a fantastically well written and well laid out book It presents concepts, explains their applicability, gives a few examples, and then gives 2 4 practice problems My game is improving rapidly as I continue my study.I read this book about fifteen years ago It s time to read it again Many good basic techniques in here, useful in games and helpful to review.Tesuji by James Davies 1998

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27 June 2018

James Davies