Essential Joseki
By Naiwei Rui 9d
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| Title | Essential Joseki |
|---|---|
| Author | Naiwei Rui 9d |
| Translator | Dr. Roy C. Schmidt |
| Publisher | Yutopian Enterprises |
| Codes | y22, PAY22 |
| Date | 1998 |
| ISBN | 1-889554-47-2 |
| Pages | 228 |
| Dimensions | 8 1/2. x 5 1/2. - 217mm x 140mm |
| In print status | Out of Print |
| Series Info | Master of Go Series Vol I |
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This is the first volume in a four volume series published in China between 1990 and 1996. The series is designed formid-levelplayers, but there is material in all four volumes that will challenge amateur dan level players.
These books are useful both as lesson books and as references. The authors are some of the strongest players in the world. They are recognized as having special strength in the areas about which they have written.
The present volume is a handy reference to joseki. It is far more comprehensive than elementary works such as 38 Basic Joseki, but much more accessible than any of the multi-volume"dictionaries". For each variation, the author provides sage advice on when to choose to play that line based on the whole board situation. Potential ladders, ko fights and seki are all explained in detail so the reader can appreciate under what conditions a particular joseki can or cannot be played.
""Contents show/hide
| Prefatory Essay by Chen Zude | ...vii | |
| Foreword | ...vii | |
| Translator's Preface | ...xii | |
| Chapter 1 | Low Approach to the Three-Four Point | ...1 |
| Chapter 2 | High Approach to the Three-Four Point | ...117 |
| Chapter 3 | Two-Space High Approach and Large Knight's Move Approach to the Three-Four Point | ...137 |
| Chapter 4 | Star Point Joseki | ...147 |
| Chapter 5 | Three-Three Point Joseki | ...183 |
| Chapter 6 | Four-Five Point Joseki | ...189 |
| Chapter 7 | Three-Five Point Joseki | ...203 |
| Glossary | ...225 | |
| Index | ...227 | |
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Review by Lawrence Ku (AGA) show/hide 23/12/2004
| Review Author | Lawrence Ku (AGA) | Reviewer Strength | 4k (IGS) |
| Audience Level | 5k - 6d |
Essential Joseki..s author, Naiwei Rui, is one of the top female professional go players. Her book covers about 40 important joseki, along with more than 200 variations, which focus on the local situation rather than the whole board. The diagrams are very clear, and the explanations are easy to understand.
..Essential Joseki. differs from other joseki books like ..38 Basic Joseki. which only demonstrates a few moves for each variation. ..Essential. provides much more detailed variations for many popular joseki. And unlike the 3-volume ..Dictionary of Basic Joseki. which covers almost all kinds of variation in voluminous detail, ..Essential. introduces new variations which I have never seen in any other joseki books.
I like this one-volume joseki book because it covers most important joseki with some degree of details. I found this book to be very useful and easy to read, and I recommend this book to go players from 5k~6d.
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 book, the first in a planned four-volume series called The Master of Go, is a joseki dictionary. I haven't read it thoroughly (hard to do with a joseki dictionary), but it seems to me to be quite good. It, of course, isn't as thorough as the Dictionary of Basic Joseki, but you don't always want that much material to sift through, and it's much more recent (I believe that it appeared in 1990) so contains joseki that that book leaves out. It'll probably be my first reference from now on for joseki that occur in games that I want to look up.