Go Beginner's Textbook Series: Basic Techniques of Go

Author: Ding Kaiming
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: This book is one of the series "Elementary Go Teaching Materials". This book mainly introduces:
Lecture 1: Seizing the Ko, Seizing the Ko andefficiency, the value of the ko, light gain and in the ko, no ko in the initial game, types of ko.
Lecture 2: Fighting and Capturing, the subject and object of fighting, counting moves | the influence of eyes on counting moves, the composition of moves in fighting, fighting with public territory, capturing, exercises and appreciation of capturing in fighting.
Lecture 3: Life and Death, the shape characteristics of life-and-death problems, life-and-death states, basic life-and-death forms, basic life-and-death shapes, crippled eyes and making eyes, exercises and appreciation of life-and-death.
Lecture 4: Enter the Board, the purpose of entering the board, the value of entering the board, common patterns of entering the board, and other fundamental Go techniques.