Review Author	Terry Fung (AGA)	Reviewer Strength	1k

What can one learn from studying low-handicap games between two professionals and a professional against a strong amateur? The list could be pretty long, including corner joseki, whole board fuseki, direction of play, middle game technique, sente and gote, honte moves and overplays. But the most important thing that I learned from this book is how professionals deal with over-aggressive moves and unreasonable challenges. This book helps weak players like me to build up confidence when playing against stronger players. It should be a great book for players between AGA 9k to 2d.

The book includes nine fully-commented real handicap games from 2 to 5 stones. While the two professionals were playing against each other, they engaged in lively and entertaining conversations. When one professional plays against an amateur, both professionals comment after the actual game and they often have different ideas about an identical position. Last but not least, this book has a feature that I enjoyed very much: there are about 7 to 8 questions per game to test your strength, and you can only find the answers after flipping to the next page.

Review Author	David Carlton	Reviewer Strength	1 kyu
Author's Email	carlton@bactrian.org	website	http://www.bactrian.org/~carlton/

This book contains nine handicap games, ranging from two to five stones. Most of the games are pro-pro. At key spots in each games, they give you three possible next moves to choose from. If you've read Kageyama's Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, you'll recognize the chatty style; this one also includes lots of talking between the two players. There's no general theory presented in the book, just the games.

The book is certainly amusing and fun to read; I don't know how much it will improve your game, though.