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A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game.
The award-winning first book in the Learn to Play Go series by Janice Kim 1 dan and Jeong Soo-hyun 9 dan, two masters of the 4,000-year-old Asian game of strategy. Takes the complete beginner step-by-step all the way to playing real Go in one afternoon. Suitable for kids, demystifying for adults. Includes a complete Go set with 9x9, 13x13, and 19x19 playing grids and punch out
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Loved it.......2007-09-19
Great book! Helps you progress quickly with many examples and exercises. I intend to buy every book in the series!
A great help.......2007-06-08
This book has been everything I had hoped for in a beginners tutorial. It presents a little bit of an over view of how the game ought to be played plus some simple down-to-earth techniques. As a bonus, it includes a paper board and stones so the student can examine the techniques (or even play a full game).
I haven't fully digested the book but I'm playing better, already.
A great way to introduce yourself to the game of go........2007-03-23
This book steps through all of the basic strategy of Go. It is well illustrated and written in clear and understandable terms. I reference this book and the others in the series constantly.
My only critque is that, as a series, the books tend to be a bit repetitive and do not delve much into more complicated strategy.
clear but not filling.......2007-03-23
The book is very easy to read. This might be an advantage or a disadvantage., depending on your needs.
(I'm not quite a beginner, so I bought the book number 5.)
Many pages just contain one diagram, which is fine, but does not make for a lot of content.
If you're a serious reader, I'd rather recommend "Elementary Go" series by Kiseido
Learn To Play Go Easily.......2007-02-01
Janice Kim and Jeong Soo-hyun have made and excellent book. I had wanted to play go for a long time, yet I did not know what book to choose. Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game was very helpful.
The book is organized into chapters, and at the end of each chapter, there are some problems for you to try yourself. The book is very easy to understand, and you feel very satisfied when you successfully answer a question.
You don't have a go board? No problem. There is a go set inside. It has a reversable mat with a 19 by 19, 13 by 13 and a 9 by 9 board. There are also 'stones' made out of a thick paper.
This instructional book has everything from ko and life and death, to information about go history and playing go on the computer. If you have never played go before, definately buy this book.
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surprised by wrong account.......2007-08-22
I am surprised that the Go Master was depicted so positively when he in fact has cheated in a game versus the legendary true Go Master, Go Seigen. See article below! I was hoping the book would have a more balanced view instead of depicting the Go master as "Good" and the competitor as "Evil". I am glad that Kitani Minoru vindicated Go Seigen by beating Shusai (the Go Master) in the game, of which the book is the subject.
In 1933, Go Seigen won a special Nihon Ki-in tournament to have the opportunity to play a game against Honinbo Shusai Meijin. At that juncture, Honinbo Shusai embodied the highest Go authority and tradition in Japan. In addition to inheriting the hereditary title of Honinbo, he was also the holder of the prestigious position of Meijin. The game between Go Seigen and Shusai was thus highly anticipated. The newspapers thought it would be a good business idea to publicize the game as a confrontation between Japan and China. As a consequence, Go Seigen became the unfortunate victim of rising Japanese nationalism. Before and during the game, he was often harassed and threatened by nationalists, and the windows of his house were smashed in.
The game itself began on October 16, 1933 with Go Seigen taking black and lasted for a period of almost three months. During the opening of the game, Go Seigen caused quite a sensation by playing his first three moves at 3-3, 4-4 and Tengen points. Such a fuseki has never before been witnessed in a professional game, and the newspapers covering the game recorded top sales all throughout the match. This marked one of the seminal events that pushed the "Shin Fuseki" movement into the mainstream.
The match ended with Honinbo Shusai winning by two points. However, his victory was surrounded by controversies. At the time of the match, the tradition dictated that the player holding white had the right to adjourn the game at anytime, and there was no sealing of moves before adjournment. This meant that Shusai, being the nominally stronger player and thus holding white, could adjourn the match whenever it was his turn to move and continue deliberating at home before the match resumed. Shusai shamelessly abused this privilege by adjourning the game more than a dozen times, without exception, all at his turn to play. For instance, on the eighth day of the match, Shusai played first, and Go Seigen replied within two minutes, Shusai then thought for three and a half hours, only to adjourn the game. It was no secret that Shusai, during adjournments, discussed and studied the game with his students to come up with the best moves. Go Seigen was therefore put into an especially adverse position for having to take on the entire Honinbo establishment.
Shusai had been trailing all throughout the match when, on the 13th day of the game, he made a brilliant move that in a single stroke brought him back into the game and guaranteed his victory. However, it was widely rumored that it was not Shusai but one of his students - Maeda Nobuaki - who authored this ingenious move. Even Maeda himself hinted that this move was indeed his idea. Years later, when presented with the opportunities to debunk this rumor, he neither confirmed nor denied it. The game became known as the game of the century.
Five years later in 1938, Go Seigen's great friend Kitani Minoru also played a famous game against Honinbo Shusai (see The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata). Due in no small part to having witnessed the treatment Go Seigen received from Shusai in their previous match, Kitani Minoru demanded that the moves be sealed before each adjournment. Initially, Shusai's camp opposed this, but Kitani vehemently insisted, and Shusai eventually gave in. Kitani won that game by a comfortable margin of five points.
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Read it if you want to gain more understanding of go.......2006-01-17
I am not going to give out the ending and spoil this great novel. The book is well written and the translation is clear.
nobel winner, enough said........2006-01-12
I'm a big go fan. So the idea of a story revolving around the best game to ever exist was pretty exciting. This book is astonishingly good if you're a go fan. It's probably less so if you're not, but he's done other important work...
Reads like a collection of newspaper columns.......2005-05-08
I'm giving this book five stars because it's one of only three fiction books available with go as the theme, and I love the game of go.
But, this book reads like a collection of newspaper columns. You can literally rip any chapter out of the book and not lose any continuity. Each chapter is on a different subject, starts with a different chronology, and has a different point. For example, one chapter is about the long hair on the Go Master's eyebrow, and starts when he was still alive, and ends with some post-mortem photographs. Another example, one chapter talks about the Go Master's competitor's wife, and how years ago she was very pretty, but now she's a lot more weathered but she still has hints of prettiness, and how she's supportive of her husband throughout the tournament and raises their kids. Like I said, rip these out, and you really don't lose much.
It also movie-ifies the Go Master and his competitor. It makes the Go Master out to be the nice guy, and his competitor out to be the bad guy, with no good qualities at all. I'm sure that the actual go match wasn't as dramatic and lively as this book makes it sounds.
But, it does do an excellent job of portraying all of the excitement an everything that goes through the head of a very skilled person involved in a board game. I remember playing games of chess or go and it seemed really exciting to me, but afterwards when I tried to explain how exciting the game was, other people would just look at me with a blank stare. This book does a good job describing that feeling in an explainable way.
I'm a go player, so I understood a lot of the go references. If you haven't ever played go before, it might be pretty hard to understand, especially because go is different than any other game that I've ever played. But, here's an intro course. White 100 means the 100th move, and Black 101 will be the next move, the 101st move. This is the way to tell chronology in the book. Go is very interesting, in that the first 50 moves, or the beginning game, aren't very complex, and so they go fast. The next 100 moves, or the middle game, are extremely complex, and the final 50-100 moves, or the end game, are very simple. Usually the game is decided in the middle game, and the end game is just kind of a formality.
That dynamic is totally different than any other game, and so what that means to the non-go player is that none of the charts or graphs of the go moves will make any sense, because the book talks about the middle game, which is so vague and nebulous to an onlooker. At least in chess, an onlooker can say "who captured more pieces" and get a good idea for who is winning. There's no way for an onlooker to ask a simple question to go players to determine who is winning.
It's an excellent book to read for a cultural experience, since it's written by a Japanese author about a go game in 1938. I especially thought the chapter on the American visiting Japan was funny.
Also, the first part of the book makes it sound like the Go Master's final go game was responsible for the Go Master's death. I think that's just the author dramatizing it. In one of the later chapters I found out he died about a year later. Plus this Go Master dude was like 70 lbs, 85 years old, and just sat around in an old folk's home playing games all day. People like that die all the time.
All in all, worth reading, but I do hope that more people write books on the game of go, because I love the game of go.
Record of a single game of Go.......2004-04-17
If another writer has written "The Master of Go", a true story about the competition between the "invincible" Master of Go and a much-younger opponent in the Master's retirement match, and intense single game that lasted for more than six-months, perhaps they could have used the game to launch a sweeping metaphor of the fading Meji-era of Japan giving way to the modern era, or a struggle of youth and age or something of the sort. The game itself might have taken second seat to whatever greater picture the author painted.
Instead, because this is Kawabata, we have an intimate portrait of three people, the two players and the author himself, basic and alive and honest human beings. Of course, there is a bit of metaphor and conclusions can be drawn, but ultimately the three people do not require any grandeur beyond there immediate status as human beings. It is enough.
The Master of Go himself, the highest available rank in the official Go association, is a portrait of obsession and dedication. He is only comfortable playing games, and even amidst his failing health and the demands of his retirement challenge, he ensnares anyone around him in any game possible, be in Mah Jong or Billiards. His opponent, a young yet high ranking challenger, has fought his way through a year-long tournament for the honor of being the opponent in the Master's final match. High strung, and with health issues of his own, he brings everything he has to defeat the Master in his last game. The author, a newspaper reporter assigned to cover the match which is being sponsored by his paper, unable to penetrate the minds of the two players, lays open his own feelings and interpretations while retaining a newspaperman's eye for reporting facts rather than speculation.
Kawabata, being the real-life newspaper reporter who covered the real-life game, uses his simple writing style and honest narrative to bring to life this competition in a more riveting manner than any metaphor. Charts of the games progress are used to explain the moves, details are brought forth regarding the health of the players, and the history of the match. In amazement, he manages to maintain tension in the story even though the outcome of the match is told in the first few paragraphs. The chapters are tiny, making the book as unable to put down as a bag of potato chips, as there always seems to be room for one more.
Knowledge of Go is not necessary for this book, although a basic understanding of the rules will help put things into perspective. The translation is good, but I don't like Seidensticker translates Japanese games like Shogi as Chess, even though they are not the same game. The notes at the end are very insightful however, and help fill in some of the gaps of Go-knowledge.
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Understanding and Letting Go of Guilt (The Master Work Series)
Lucy Freeman , and
Herbert S. Strean
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This is the first volume in a four-volume series published in China between 1990 and 1996.
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Basic joseki book........2006-02-21
This is good book for basic joseki "dictionary". It shows basic josekis with some variation. Example; Star point (4-4) joseki is covered by 35 pages. This chapter includes knight's move approach, which is main part of chapter. Defending aggainst Knight's move include also a few besic variation and a few pincher josekis. Josekis are shown clearly with some word explanation. Best thing is "names" of josekis, they describe character of every joseki. What I miss is some word of typical use of particular joseki, what kind situation that joseki is good for.
I think this is good first joseki book. But you have to know basic things about josekis, like what they are for? Book is easy to read even without go-board. Because of the nature of joseki books, they fit better to a library of go club than private bookshelf.
This book give me a few new ideas for my joseki play.
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The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata
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This novel is considered to be Nobel Prize winner Kawabata's finest work.
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The Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism contends that each one of us is already a Buddha — the enlightenment we seek is always within us, waiting to be realized through mindfulness and concerted spiritual work. This truth pushes us toward practice, in the hopes that we may awaken our potential and live up to what is inside us. This is a notion taught widely by ninth century Zen Master Lin Chi, and in his tradition Thich Nhat Hanh employs the teachings and writings of Mahayana Buddhism to discuss specific topics in Buddhist study and practice. With these teachings, readers have the tools to awaken the Buddha within.
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21:06-minute VHS. *2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee: Underhood, Under Vehicle, Body Exterior, Interior and Body Electrical. *Minivan Stow 'N Go Seats.
2004 Master Tech VHS Series in paper slipcovers.
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50 Calligraphy Projects: Learn skills as you go with great results: How to master all the calligraphic techniques, including cutting quills and reed pens, ... own party invitations, birthday cards, gifts
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With the added romance of its ancient origins, medieval echoes and heraldic associations, calligraphy is a creative, emotive and enjoyable hobby that attracts people from all walks of life, including artists, craftspeople, and those who just want to be a
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The Go Books series is designed for early emergent readers. Young readers learn short vowel sounds and basic sight words. The Blackline Masters Book includes 100 masters that reinforce reading and writing skills plus 20 masters that help teachers assess students' reading behavior with running records.
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The Louisiana sun beat mercilessly n Nicole St. Claire just as fate, too, had been merciless. The once wealthy, flirtatious belle stood on the auction block to be sold as a servant. Her sensual figure disguised, her glorious titian hair disheveled, she looked like a waif, but she was all woman, trembling when she recognized the highest bidder--idol of her childhood dreams, the owner of plantation Belle Chene.
A man of blazing passion, Alex du Villier bought the girl out of pity, but her aqua eyes stirred his soul and her body ignited his blood. She would be the perfect mistress to make him forget his coming marriage to a cold, haughty heiress. Now he intended to teach this innocent beauty that although he had purchased her freedom, he could steal her heart.
An affair of burning desires. . . . Under a Creole moon their passion became a wildfire neither could control, driving them to heart-wrenching choices of silken sin...or freedom and love.
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Made me want to vomit........2007-05-23
Ugh! The "hero" seduces the girl, thinking she was not a virgin and wanting her for his mistress. Nicki was wellborn but his bondswoman (she belonged to him like a temporary slave), she thought he was going to marry her, but of course he only wants her as a mistress. He keeps her against her will, and has to "seduce" her each time because she doesn't want to be a mistress. He can't marry her because he is in debt and needs a loan from his rich fiancee. OK - he has a lot of dependents so needs the money, but he didn't have to keep Nicki prisoner as his sex slave. Shesh. She kept running away and he kept "rescuing" her after she got into trouble, he sees how much Nicki hates being his mistress and claims to care for her but can't leave her alone. She finds out his agent has been embezzling for years and gets the money back, but he doesn't say anything about marrying her - he waits too long, she decides he wasn't going to ask ever so runs away to Texas to marry a homesteader. He comes after her and proposes, and so all is forgiven.(!!) I kept waiting for his comeuppance, but it never came.
I've read and liked Kat Martin's 'Heart of Honor' and 'Dangerous Passions', and the necklace trilogy, so was very disappointed with 'Creole Fires'.
sooooo bad.......2007-02-25
Alex is a jerk. He even admits to keeping her against her will... she is mistreated throughout the whole story and than agrees to marriage... - I don't think so!
A Classic Romance!.......2006-03-13
"Creole Fires" is a classic Martin romance. This read offers it all for the fan of historical romance fiction.
Alex Du Villier has returned to Louisiana after being abroad in France for several years. Before his departure for France, he rescued a young lady of good breeding from certain harm. He walks away from her but she never leaves his mind. Three years later he returns to New Orleans and is on his way to a meeting with friends when he is compelled to enter an auction for indentured servants. He can't explain it but he purchases a slight young girl with the eyes the color of the girl he'd saved. He has no idea that both girls are one and the same, and that he has unwittingly taken a step towards his future. But will he allow his heart to release the one thing that brings him joy in order secure the families sugar plantation with a marriage that will be no more then a business arrangement?
Nicole has lost all. Her father and mother are dead and she is now not a gently breed young lady...she is now a bond servant. When she is put on the auction block she has no idea who the handsome man is that has purchased her...until she comes face to face with her hero from her childhood. He has no idea who she is and accepts the fact that she is no more then she appears. A thief and servant. But, his gentle nature and attention speaks to Nicki and she begins to wish for that which she can't have...that is until his grandmother returns from France and recognizes who Nicki is. Will Alex and Nicki be able to put their feelings aside for a fortune, or will love be stronger then either of them ever realized it could be?
This is one of my favorite romances by Ms. Martin. She has taken great care in building the relationship between her two main characters and as a result the reader will be drawn into the drama and firmly entertained until the final page. This is one romance I highly recommend!
Awsome Read.......2003-05-22
This book was wonderfully written. I loved the characters Alex and Nicole. Alex is such a great guy in this book. The passion between the two is so great I couldn't wait for the next thing to happen. The only time I got irritated was when Nicole kept running away thinking she should find love somewhere else,(only because Alex had to marry someone else and she didn't want to be his mistress). I was thinking to myself "girl, give it up!" She already caused herself much trouble the last two times she left him because of her damn pride and every time-- she comes close to getting either robbed, raped, or killed. I also enjoyed the part where Alex and Nicole met a few years ago by accident, and since he has never forgotten her looks, he sees her being octioned off as a servant. But he only notices the beauty of his rememberance of her (not knowing it was the same girl) and buys her anyway against a mean, cruel man in which Alex had to beat. Then the story goes on. This book was definately a page turner. I'm glad I bought the book. I've read a lot of Kat Martin books, and this is just one of the stories that I can clearly remember because I enjoyed it so much. It is worth reading! ;)
Creole Fires.......2002-10-30
Well, I guess I am the lone ranger. This book bored me to death. I got so sick of the slave/not slave, marriage/not marriage. I have seen too many romance novels like this where the heroine always wants to marry and the hero just wants a mistress and "proper" wife suited to his great wealth and standing. Really can't someone come up with something more interesting than this. I had a real hard time even finishing it.
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CREOLE FIRES
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While Jake is away at an out-of-town wedding, Tobias discovers the place where Visser Three feeds. There is a unanimous decision to acquire cheetah morphs and run him down. But which Animorph will lead the mission in Jake's absence?
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The Millionaires of Genesis.......2007-10-11
I'm not totally through the book but it's a great, teaching book about values and how to be rich, not necessarily monetarily! Forgiveness, tithing, sacrificing, faith and hope are mantras for someone that is searching to be a Millionaire. It's been an asset to my reading collection.
Great insights, sometimes doctrinally questionable.......2007-10-10
As a long-time student of the Old Testament with a particular love for the Book of Genesis, I was fascinated by some of the insights the author offered.
I some cases, however, I feel that the author took liberties in interpretation of the facts. Particularly noted were her interpretations of the names of places. It seemed like she wanted to mold the facts to fit her point of view.
Still, the book was well worth the price and time to read. I'm reading it a second time.
A landmark book on the art of affirmations!.......2000-04-24
This book is a must have for anyone who wants to use affirmations to create positive changes in their everyday life. Ponder explains her ideas clearly and gives plenty of examples of affirmations for everything from finding a job to solving problems and achieving career goals. I highly recommend it. It's awsome and then some!
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