Goky Shumy is one of the most famous collections of go problems, containing 520 classic tesuji problems compiled and published by Hayashi Genbi in 1812. Its contents are divided into the categories of making life, capturing, ko, capturing races, connecting, oi-otoshi, cutting, and ladders.This English edition of Goky Shumy is the first of its kind. Until now, Western go players have had to rely on Asian editions of the book to peruse its contents. Besides adding English annotations for problemsolutions, this edition fixes dozens of mistakes in the source material and grades problems by their difficulty. The editor Antti Törmänen is himself a professional player with the Japan Go Federation.The problems in this book come from a wide range of difficulties, from 9-kyu all the way to professional level. The core audience of the book is dan players and players soon aiming to enter the dan ranks, but readers of almost all levels will find suitably challenging content in it. 312 p. 

This book is both test and training. It will not only help you to assess your skill level, but also to identify your strengths and weaknesses in the game of Go. In a total of eight chapters, you are asked to solve the exercises within a given time limit. With the help of the evaluation tables you will be able to determine where you are roughly located within the kyu and dan ranks. In addition to the classification into the rank ranges, your results will reflect in which areas you are particularly strong and where may still be room for improvement. 116 pages

As go players we all study the game in our own way, be it leisurely or with near-scientific precision. We attempt to distill the moves and find their essence in recurring, understandable patterns. But every once in a while we are struck by a move we have never seen before. A move that is so out of the ordinary that we cannot help but marvel at it. A move to remember. This book is a collection of such moves: the weird and wonderful of go. The first volume bundles together highlights from professional games. Our main selection criterion was that the moves had to surprise: sometimes a move shone at us like an undiscovered gem and other times a sequence looked so bizarre that it made us laugh. Another prerequisite was that the moves were played by humans. Our aim for this book is to share the beauty of human creativity. 246 pages

Un deuxième tome principalement consacré aux ouvertures associant un point-étoile et un point 3-4 - en particulier l'ouverture chinoise. Plus copieux que le premier tome, il en conserve évidemment la forme et les objectifs - c'est-à-dire qu'il s'agit, bien au-delà d'un simple dictionnaire de fuseki, d'un véritable traité complet de la stratégie d'ouverture et de la gestion de l'ensemble du goban. Pas très facile évidemment, mais richissime, à la fois technique (inévitablement) et vivant, un livre unique, somme irremplaçable sur un sujet essentiel. Indispensable à tout amateur sérieux, naturellement.

Aji, kikashi, et sabaki sont les concepts les plus importants du Go. Ils imprègnent le jeu de subtilités stratégiques inégalées dans n'importe quel autre jeu. Sans une réelle compréhension de ces concepts, aucun joueur de Go ne peut espérer atteindre un niveau élevé. A côté de ces concepts, il est également nécessaire de comprendre la place et la distribution des pierres et comment elles influencent d'autres parties du plateau, déterminant quelles pierres peuvent être sacrifiées, et quelles pierres doivent être renforcées avant de jouer des mouvements stratégiques à grande échelle. Composé de huit chapitres d'explication et de 100 problèmes accompagnés des solutions détaillées, ce livre donnera au lecteur le vrai sens de la beauté stratégique du Go.

Il existe environ 45 sortes de tesujis. Ils sont tous traités dans ce livre, à travers 501 problèmes. Voici un excellent ouvrage d'exercices qui nécessiteront pas mal d'efforts avant que vous puissiez tous les résoudre. Le principal reste encore de se confronter aux tesujis. Contenu du livre: - Preface - A Glossary of Tesujis Used in this Book - Some Important Terms and Concepts - 501 Tesuji Problems