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Get Strong at Life & Death

By Richard Bozulich

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Get Strong at Life & Death

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Description
Killing isolated groups or finding a way to make two eyes for them is an important technique that every Go player must acquire. Positions in which you must determine whether a group is alive of dead occur in almost every game, and the player whose skill at killing a group or finding the moves that will give his own group two eyes stands the better chance of staging an upset. In fact, life and death is regarded as so important that apprectices studying to become Go professionals are required to spend many hours each day solving life-and-death problems in order to improve their analytical abilities. Solving a life-and-death problem requires the reading out of the solution as well as the numerous variations and moves that the opponent may respond with. This often requires reading more than six moves deep and keeping a picture in your mind of the resulting positions of all variations. Such activity can be likened to mental weight training. Although this is first and foremost a problem book (containing 230 problems), the explanations of the main topics make it useful as an introduction to life and death and it should be accessible to players who have read an introductory Go book and played a few games.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
1998-04-01
Publication Date:
1998-04-01
Publisher:
Japan Publications Trading Co
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
4906574580
Weight:
300 g
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