In Joseki Revolution, Shibano focuses on local exchanges, in contrast to the predominantly whole-board focus on fuseki strategy of his previous book, Fuseki Revolution. Even so, Shibano's analysis always maintains a global view, as the basic nature of go is such that without whole-board judgement, there is no local judgement. Even when you are evaluating a joseki in a corner, a whole-board viewpoint is always essential.

Of particular interest in Joseki Revolution is his treatment of the taisha, the avalanche, and the magic-sword josekis. Shibano shows how, thanks to AI, these extremely complicated josekis have been "swamped in a wave of simplification."

In Chapter 3 Shibano discusses the merits and demerits of the four corner enclosures based on the 3-4 point. He investigates the reason why the small-knight enclosure has declined in popularity and why the previously shunned two-space enclosure has become so popular.

The book consists of 35 themes divided into four chapters as follows:

Chapter 1. Changes in basic josekis

Chapter 2. The transformation in opening strategies

Chapter 3. Up-to-date information about corner structures

Chapter 4. Looking at the most up-to-date josekis

In an appendix, Shibano examines some unconventional moyo-oriented fuseki strategies and gives some advice on how to handle these large-scale moyos. The appendix also contains a section on the revival of the high Chinese Opening and explains why this opening strategy is strategically sound.

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

Dictionnaire de fuseki, re. Mais autant le Rin Kaiho dépasse de beaucoup ce simple programme, autant celui-ci - dont le titre est une double pétition de principe, puisque l'ouvrage date de 2000 (d'où le moderne) et est d'origine coréenne (d'où le style) - s'y cantonne sans fioritures inutiles. On retrouve donc une approche classique : 59 schémas de base (appartenant essentiellement aux ouvertures linéaires et à la famille des ouvertures chinoises) représentés chacun par quelques variantes présentées sur une trentaine de coups et accompagnées d'un court commentaire. Solide, lisible et récent, un bon complément au petit dictionnaire de la Nihon Ki-in.

Moins radicale que le sanren-sei, l'ouverture chinoise a conquis en relativement peu de temps une grande popularité. Avec ce livre, vous n'ignorerez plus grand chose à son sujet.

Bien que moins spécifiquement consacré au joseki, ce livre s'attaque au même problème que The great joseki debates et Whole board thinking in joseki, à savoir l'orientation à donner au jeu dès l'ouverture. Plus général dans son approche que les deux autres ouvrages, il pourra en constituer une manière de prologue, ou au contraire être un outil d'approfondissement a posteriori. Ecrit dans un style haut en couleurs et parfois légèrement provocateur, voilà en tous cas un ouvrage tonique et qui donne à réfléchir.