Get Strong at Invading
By Richard Bozulich
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| Title | Get Strong at Invading |
|---|---|
| Author | Richard Bozulich |
| Publisher | Kiseido |
| Code | k55 |
| Date | 1995 |
| ISBN | 4-87187-055-3 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Dimensions | 8 1/4. x 5 3/4. - 210mm x 147mm |
| Series Info | Get Strong at Go, Volume V |
| Publisher's URL | http://kiseido.com/Strong.htm#K55 |
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This book is part 5 of the Get Strong at Go Series
Invading is an important technique that every go player should have in his arsenal, and here is a book that will raise your invading ability to expert strength.
The material is presented in a problem format. Each problem is a part of a series of problems in which various lines are explored. Short sequences of moves allow the reader to concentrate on one particular aspects of a problem without becoming confused through the analysis of long and complicated variations. This book is divided into three parts. Part One systematically deals with the standard invasions on the side of the board, Part Two with invading the corners and attacking corner enclosures, and Part Three with erasing large territorial frameworks.
This is a book for players of all strengths. If you ar a weak kyu player, it is guaranteed to increase your invading ability by as much as six stones. If you are already a strong dan player, it will fill the gaps that may exist in your invasion technique. For sure, this is a book that no serious go player can do without.
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| Preface | ...iv | ||
| Part One | ...1 | ||
| Invasions on the Side | |||
| Part Two | ...49 | ||
| Invading Corner Enclosures | |||
| Part Three | ...105 | ||
| Invading Large Territories | |||
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Review by Paul Thibodeau (AGA) show/hide 29/05/2001
| Review Author | Paul Thibodeau (AGA) | Reviewer Strength | n/a |
| Audience Level | 20k - 2d |
"Get Strong at Invading" is one of the early volumes ('95) in the 'Get Strong at Go Series', and it shows.
The back cover 'guarantees' it will increase a weak kyu's invading ability by as much as 6 stones, but will also 'fill in the gaps' for a 'strong dan'. It is divided into three sections, Invasions on the Side (65 problems mainly covering 3 and 4 point extensions between two stones, Invading Corner Enclosures (84 problems), and Invading Large Territories (not actually about invading large territories, but reducing large frameworks (moyos).
The last section is the best, running 46 pages for 22 problems. The first two sections have a variety of useful patterns, but generally the treatment is poorly organized and scant, and this is where the book really suffers. A kyu player will learn more, and learn it properly, by studying "Attack and Defense" by Ishida and Davies, while a dan player can't do better than "Enclosure Josekis" by Takemiya and "Reducing Territorial Frameworks" by Fujisawa.
Review by David Carlton show/hide
| Review Author | David Carlton | Reviewer Strength | 1 kyu |
| Author's Email | carlton@bactrian.org | website | http://www.bactrian.org/~carlton/ |
This is a volume consisting of 171 problems about invading. It's divided up into sections on invasions on the side, invasions in the corner, and invading large territories. Complicated situations are often broken up into multiple problem on consecutive pages.
I tried to work through this book without much success: it's very hard to concentrate all the way through a book like this, or even through a significant portion, since each problem demands decent instincts and a fair amount of reading to back up your instincts, much more reading than in a typical tesuji or life-and-death problem. On the other hand, I don't really know of any other way to teach you how to invade, and other people out there are probably better at reading this kind of book than I am. So go for it, and you might want to plan to only read one part of the book, since otherwise you'll probably burn out.