Go! More Than a Game Revised Edition

Name: Go! More Than a Game Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780804834759

ISBN-10: 080483475X

ISBN-13: 9780804834759

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Shotwell, Huiren Yang, Sangit Chatterjee

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Invented 2500-4000 years ago, the game of Go has enthralled hundreds of millions of people in Asia, where it is an integral part of the culture. in the West, hundreds of thousands have learned of its pleasures, especially after the game appeared in a number of hit movies, TV series, and books, and was included on major Internet game sites. By eliciting the highest powers of rational thought, the game draws players, not just for the thrills of competition, but because they feel it enhances their mental, artistic, and even spiritual lives. Go! More Than a Game uses the most modern methods of teaching, so that, in a few minutes, anyone can understand the two basic rules that generate the game.…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 8/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Peter Shotwell is an internationally known expert on the relationship of Go to Eastern and Western philosophy, literature, and history. He has been writing about Go for nearly twenty years and has lived in China, Tibet, and Japan while researching the origins and background of the game. Mr. Shotwell is also the author of Go! More Than a Game.



Territory



Handicap Go-The Great Equalizer



Beginning Play



The Harmony and Balance of a Mental Martial Art



Two Professional 9 X 9 Games



Intermediate Play



The Stones Talk to Each Other



The First 13 X13 Game



Making Good Shape



The Second 13 X 13 Game



Advanced Play



Direction of Play



Go on the Big Board-19 X 19 Game



Some Fusekis and Josekis



A Second Look at Some of the Games



Further Explorations In Go



The History of Go



Go and Western Science



Go, Business, and the Thirty-Six Strategies of the Dark School of Taoism



Update-Recent Developments


Computer Go Turns into Supercomputer Go


Surreal Numbers and Combinatorial Game Theory


Go Combinatorics: The Maximum Number of Possible Go Positions, Games and their Lengths


Asian Go


Two Giant Tibetan Go Boards


A Re-dating and Re-Interpretation of the Pre-Han Confucian Go Passages


Where to Go from Here: Go Resources and Equipment


Go Equipment


Notes


Glossary and Pronunciation of Japanese Terms in this Book