Attack and Defense
One of most fascinating and exciting aspects of Go is the large scale strategy of the middle game. This is often the decisive part of the game too. Attack and Defense will teach you how to attack your opponent's weak stones and how to defend your own. This is an excellent introduction to the strategy of Go.
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Book Description:
The middle game of Go often appears chaotic, but there is order in the chaos, as this book plainly reveals.
The result of a joint effort by a tournament-winning Japanese professional player and an experienced American Go writer, it lays down a few clear principles, then goes through a wealth of applications: Examples, problems, and case studies from professional play.
The reader emerges with a thorough grasp of how to choose strategy, how to execute dual purpose attacks, how to defend with contact plays, how to force his opponent into submission or cooperation, how to invade and reduce territorial frameworks, and when to fight ko. This is knowledge that no Go player can afford to be without.
This book is a part of the Elementary Go Series.
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Author:
- Akira Ishida
- Translator:
- James Davies
- Publisher:
- Kiseido
- Series:
- Elementary Go Series
- Pages:
- 253
- ISBN10:
- 4-906574-14-9
- ISBN13:
- 978-4-906574-14-8
- Dimensions (mm):
- 181 x 128
- Dimensions (inches):
- 7.1 x 5
Probably the best English language book on the middle game. Suitable from double digit kyu (when I first read it) to single digit kyu (I’m again reading it). As the title implies, it covers how to attack groups of stones and how to defend groups of stones: and do so while creating territory.
This book will give you the necessary weapons to travel the fearsome lands of the middle game in go: double attacks, leaning attacks, using thickness, defending. Scattered throughout the book are many examples taken from professional play, also some problems to test your knowledge. Beware, this is no problem book, nor life and death or tesuji book. In this book you’ll learn the high level strategy, for low level skirmishing you have to look elsewhere (for example the magnificent Tesuji or Life and Death from the same series).
Summarizing, this is a book any improving Go player should read. With patient study and several re-reading, it’s impossible to say how many stones will make you improve, since this is knowledge that will go with you for all your Go career.