Learn to Play Go: A Master?s Guide to the Ultimate Game

Jeong Soo-hyun, Janice Kim

ISBN 10: 0964479613 / ISBN 13: 9780964479616

Published by Good Move Press, 1994

About this Item

Learn to Play Go: A Master?s Guide to the Ultimate Game; Jeong Soo-hyun, Janice Kim; Good Move Press; 1994; Book and Board Only (Volume I), First Edition , ISBN: 0964479613, Softcover, 10x7x.5?, 160pp. BOOKSELLER SINCE 1968. 10% OFF FIRST ORDER. GOOD condition -Text is pristine with no markings noticed but covers show some wear and upper right corner has been bumped. See photos. NOTE: While there is a fold-up board in the back of the book, there are NO STONES!! The book cover says ?Go Set Included?, so perhaps the book was part of a set originally. Go is a game that two people play with a Go board and Go stones. The players take turns putting black and white stones on the board to surround area, or territory. Whoever has more territory at the end of the game is the winner. No one can say really what Go is, how you should play it, what it ought to mean to you. That can only be a personal discovery, perhaps with the aid of a native guide pointing out the features of the terrain. Learn to play Go. It is simple, but it is not easy. It is worth the time you spend on it. This is to be expected of the best kind of game.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learn to Play Go: A Master?s Guide to the Ultimate Game
• Publisher: Good Move Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964479613
• ISBN 13: 9780964479616
• Binding: Softcover
• Illustrator: A Lee
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
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Synopsis

UPDATED 3RD EDITION AVAILABLE 7/1/2010. A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game. The award-winning first book in the Learn to Play Go series by Janice Kim 3 dan and Jeong Soo-hyun 9 dan, two masters of the 4,000-year-old Asian game of strategy. Takes the complete beginner step-by-step all the way to playing real Go in fourteen chapters that can be read in 10-15 minutes each, each with a try-it-yourself section at the end. Suitable for kids, demystifies the learning process for adults.

About the Author

Janice Kim was born in Illinois in 1969. She became the first female student at the Korean Go Academy and entered the professional dan ranks in Korea in 1987, the first Westerner ever to do so. She won the Fuji Women's Championship in 1984, took second place in the World Youth Championship in 1985, and third place in the EBS Cup in 1994. In 1998 she represented the US in the Bohae Cup. She was promoted to 3 dan in 2003. After graduating from New York University, Ms. Kim authored the five books of the Learn to Play Go series and founded the online Go company Samarkand. In 2008, in an effort to explore similarities in strategy games, she played in the World Poker Tour's Women's Championship in Las Vegas and placed fourth. She currently resides in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and two children.