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Here is my son’s feedback – “The author should have put in less self opinions, and just teach how to play”
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
I would say that anyone from about 20k-2d can find something useful in this book, and it would be a nice review for anyone higher.
1. It’s awesome.
This book is awesome, buy it. End of lesson.
2. Neatly outlines all of the fundamentals and explains things well.
The title was the lesson. End of lesson.
3. Story time
He tells stories about his life with go, which are both funny and provide a nice break from thinking. End of lesson.
4. Now buy it.
It’s time. End of lesson.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This book is enjoyable to read, full of witty comments. Some problems occur in every game, some are contrived and extremely tricky.
You have to read it carefully several times, each time you come back and read you are sure to go up by half a stone.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
After taking a a really long break from Go, I just reread this book and almost back to my peak level (8-9k ish) in 2 days (do to fundamentals? i think so).
As many others have said this was an easy and fun book to read. After reading the book for the first time in one sitting, and before even playing another game I felt stronger, way stronger. The book makes you build confidence and teaches you the fundamentals where you at least know the name of whats happening in the game. Kageyama wants you to understand the concept of each move and why each move and why each is is played there. For example, the cross cut and invasion in corners people tend to avoid. The book gives you confidence in those moves and even if you lose everything is progress. It taught me to break my mold and try new things.
I actually have had people cry about me breaking joseki and how I should be punished, but they still end up losing the game. The book makes you feel confident about each move you take and how you should not always follow the joseki for a formation. The book takes you off
I would say read it the first time for fun. The 2nd time have your computer or GO board out and experiment with each of the exercises. Try to play things out. Read this, most entertaining and helpful Go book I have read.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Being in a go club that sees many beginners I feel fairly qualified when I say this book will not help you improve rank until you are 15kyu (AGA/KGS) and really waiting until you are in the single-digit kyu range will give you the best rank improvement per time spent reading… I first read at 13kyu and was stretching. I re-read at 5kyu and got much more out of it. If I had to pick a perfect rank to read it at I’d say 7kyu.
All that said, the writing style is superior to every other go book I’ve seen and there may be merit in reading this without the goal of rank improvement. I suggest playing games between every chapter – I found myself overplaying the style suggestions if I read too many chapters between games. With other intermediate go books (such as Tesuji or Life & Death) it is not damaging to read it all in one sitting.
This book is well known in the GO community and I strongly recommend it.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5