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Hankuk Kiwon GuideBook

By Hankuk Kiwon

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Title Hankuk Kiwon GuideBook
Author Hankuk Kiwon
Translator Seong-june Kim
Publisher Hankuk Kiwon
Code hk01
Date
ISBN 89-7990-121-6
Pages 169
Dimensions 7 3/8. x 5 1/16. - 188mm x 128mm

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Preface ...6
1 The Origin of Baduk (Go) ...9
2 History of Korean Baduk ...17
3 Modernization of Baduk in Korea ...25
4 World Dominance of Korean Baduk ...31
5 Survey of the KBA ...41
6 Operations of the KBA ...55
7 The Rules of Korean Baduk ...83
8 Baduk Tournaments in Korea ...109
9 Professional Players in the KBA ...131
10 Game Appreciations ...153

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

This is a guide book to the Hankuk Kiwon, a.k.a. the Korean Baduk Association. It's pretty much what you would expect: a history of the KBA, general KBA info, Korean rules, Korean players, Korean tournaments, and a few professional games with limited commentary.

I would only recommend this to people who are particularly interested in Korean go. If you're living in Korea, I suppose you may find the list of local branches useful, and it has pictures of all the players so you can see what they look like, but there's very little here of interest to the general go fan.



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