Customer Reviews

Modern Joseki and Fuseki: Volume One: Paralell Joseki

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Without doubt, this is a must read, for every hard core go player. This book is part of a 2 volume series. The first one, deals more with joseki, and the second, more with fuseki, but in both you can see both subjects.

Joseki and Fuseki are very linked together, so the author explains josekis in function of the fuseki, and the other way round. You will learn to see the hole board when picking a joseki, and choosing correctly a fuseki given a joseki.

I strongly recomend this book, to anyone who wants to master their go skill, but has already grasp the basic /intermediate knoledge (lets say 3k igs?).

If this is your first fuseki book, id recomend reading "openning theory made easy" (or any similar) firts, and then coming to this one. This is because this book is very technical while "OTME" gives you general principles that can be applied everywhere.

This book helps develop your method of analysis and pattern of playing as well as modern pattern of playing. It is easy to read and to understand. This book is comprehensible and applicablle even for the beginners.

I was really puzzled over how to rate this book. I titled the review I am only an egg." from Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" for that reason. I have only been playing Go for a couple of years, and this book is MUCH to advanced for my current purposes. I can see that rating changing to four or five stars in a couple of years, however. For my current purposes the "learn to Play Go" series, by Janice Kim and Jeong Soo-kyun is much more helpful.