Go Fundamentals

Shi Xiangxia (1710 - 1771), titled guoshou and go saint, was one of the strongest players in the Qing dynasty. His masterpiece, Go Fundamentals, contains 6 games, 12 positions in 257 variations, and 3 poems of pithy formulas on go theory. The "Guiding Formulas for Important Positions" has been enriched with examples taken from all 5 games of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match between Lee Sedol 9 dan and AlphaGo, demonstrating how the profound principles of this great master can be applied even to this day.

The cover image shows a popular opening move considered to be a new invention. However, it was actually conceived and explored by Shi Xiangxia in this book over 200 years ago.

• Foreword
• Preface by Deng Yuanhui
• Preface by Shi Xiangxia
• Preface by Li Ningshi
• Guiding Formulas for Important Positions
• Overview of Four-Stone Games
• Attacking the Lone Stone (Total 5 Variations)
• Big Iron Net (Total 15 Variations)
• Small Iron Net (Total 6 Variations)
• Empty Corner (Total 30 Variations)
• Self-Constructed Two-Stone Games (Total 6 Games)
• Worriless Corner (Total 4 Variations)
• Overview of Corner Attack
• Corner Invasion (Total 11 Variations)
• Corner Seal (Total 8 Variations)
• Lower Invasion (Total 18 Variations)
• Cross-Cut Corner (Total 39 Variations)
• Upper Cross-Cut Corner (Total 36 Variations)
• Lower Cross-Cut Corner (Total 39 Variations)
• Great Cross-Cut Corner (Total 46 Variations)

Book description on Sensei's Library: http://senseis.xmp.net/?YiliZhigui
Amazon author page: http://amazon.com/author/ruoshi
About the translator: http://senseis.xmp.net/?RuoshiSun