SAKATA - The Middle Game of Go, 144 p.

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.

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