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Learn to Play Go Volume II: The Way of the Moving Horse

By Janice Kim, Jeong Soo-hyun

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Title Learn to Play Go Volume II: The Way of the Moving Horse
Authors Janice Kim, Jeong Soo-hyun
Publishers Samarkand, Good Move Press
Code l2a
Date 98
ISBN 0-9644796-2-1
Pages 166
Dimensions 9 1/4. x 7 3/16. - 180mm x 235mm
Series Info Learn to Play Go Vol III
Publishers's URL http://www.samarkand.net/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=L2A.html

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  Preface and Acknowledgements ...i
  Introduction ...vii

Part I: Principles

...1
(1) The Process of Go ...2
  The Opening, The Middle Game, The Endgame
(2) The Knack of the Opening ...10
    Go Statistics ...14
(3) Enclosures and Approaches ...18
  The Enclosure, The Approach
    The Hankook Kiwon ...25
(4) Answering the Approach ...26
  Answering the Knight's Approach, Answering the One-Point Approach
(5) Bases and Extensions ...30
  "If one, jump two; if two, jump three"
(6) The Way of the Moving Horse ...38
  Extending, The One-Point Jump, The Two-Point Jump, The Diagonal, The Knight's Move, The Large Knight's Move, Weak Haengma
(7) Invasion and Reduction ...44
 

Part II: Skills

...53
(8) How to Attack ...54
  How to Attack an Invading Stone, When There are Weak Stones
    The Aim of Go ...67
(9) How to Defend ...68
  Defense of Territory, Defense of Weak Stones
    Go Equipment ...81
(10) The Art of the Capturing Race ...82
  How to Make More Liberties, Eye vs. No-Eye
(11) Ko Fighting and Ko Threats ...88
  Ko Types, Don't Be Afraid of Ko, How to Use Ko Threats
    Go Tournaments ...99
(12) Life and Death ...100
  The Throw-in, Dual Life, Eye Shapes
(13) The Art of Contact Fighting ...110
  The Diagonal Attachment, Preventing the Tiger's Mouth, The Head of Two Stones, The Triple Approach, Preventing the Spike, Defending the Weak Point, The Peep, Watch Your Cutting Points, The Attachment, Defense of Weak Points, Crosscutting, Aim at Defects
(14) Ending the Game ...126
  Ending, Shapes to Watch Out For
    The Meaning of Sente ...129
Synthesis ...136
Sample Openings ...156
Go on the Internet ...160
Index ...164


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