Posts Tagged ‘review’
American Go Yearbook
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
I got my new and shiny “American Go Yearbook” in the mail yesterday.
It looks very nice (except for the quality of the diagrams, yikes for that… looks like something printed with a printer from 15 years ago).
I liked a lot the “where should X play next” problems taken from top US games, with short comments by the players.
Also, I was sad to read the very bad review for the new “The Go Master” movie (it’s about the life of Go Seigen) – I want to see the movie anyway, hope it will become available.
“Flowing waters do not compete to be first”
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
The title of this blog entry is from the book “First Kyu” by Sung-Hwa Hong.
I wrote an article on this book which contains my review. Just to summarize it here: it is a wonderful book (about youth, love, Go and life in general), with a lot of interesting information about the Korean Go scene in late 60’s and early 70′, and very sound Go advice on how to study.
Read the whole review in the “Articles” section on my website.
I’ll go now to replay the “blood coughing game” that the book describes so nicely:
On a rainy day when I fall into loneliness and despair, I replay the game of Intetsu’s. Powerless against moves unfairly coached by ghosts, Intetsu’s stones sigh as they did on a hot summer day in 1835.
“If you want to get stronger, read this book”
Monday, February 12th, 2007
I finished reading (actually re-re-re-…-reading) one of my favorite Go books: “Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go” by Toshiro Kageyama. The title of this blog entry is the first sentence from the book.
It was delightful, as it was every times I read it in the past, even if it got me a little depressed when I missed quite a few of the reading problems – so it is time for me to go back to the tsume-go books.
I wrote a review.
Just one little quote from the book here:
“Black 1 and 3 are wrong. Do they look natural to you? Then you will have to reverse your thought process one hundred eighty degrees if you ever want to play correctly.”
