Customer Reviews

Attack and Defense (Elementary Go Series Vol. 5)

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This is a great book for someone who knows the basics. It would be an excellent introduction to the middle game for someone finishing the Learn to Play Go series by Janice Kim and Jeong Soo-Lyn. It takes for granted that you are familiar with some basic openings and begins at that point. It is a focus on balance and power and how to achieve those goals through attacking your opponents stones while defending your own framework. This book helps novice players develop workable and potent strategies. It also teaches you to defend against common attacks. I've been playing go little less than a year. I'm a 15k on NNGS (nngs.cosmic.org) and this book helped me immensely. I have been evenly matched in games with a friend since we began learning together. After reading this book I'm three stones ahead of him. It is packed with loads of information and I'm sure I'll be reviewing this book to pick up some of the lessons I missed the first time through.

This book introduces basic tactics of Go and shows how to use them in strategical concept. In the begining of the book is said that understanding basic terms of Go is requirement for reader. How ever, even as a total beginer (in Go) I feel that I have got a lot of understanding from this book. I can recomend this book as second Go book for any one who don't like books for dummies style books. I'm sure that intended target groups is more experienced players, but due lack of experience in Go, I cannot say much of how this book suits for intended target group of readers. How ever, I don't have this far any reason to feel bad about this book. The book is not light and does not containg unneccessary flavor texts. For me it means that this book is worth of its prize and I'm going to re-enter this book once I reach qualifications of targeted reader group myself.