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Essential Joseki (Masters of the Go Series)

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This is good book for basic joseki "dictionary". It shows basic josekis with some variation. Example; Star point (4-4) joseki is covered by 35 pages. This chapter includes knight's move approach, which is main part of chapter. Defending aggainst Knight's move include also a few besic variation and a few pincher josekis. Josekis are shown clearly with some word explanation. Best thing is "names" of josekis, they describe character of every joseki. What I miss is some word of typical use of particular joseki, what kind situation that joseki is good for.

I think this is good first joseki book. But you have to know basic things about josekis, like what they are for? Book is easy to read even without go-board. Because of the nature of joseki books, they fit better to a library of go club than private bookshelf.

This book give me a few new ideas for my joseki play.