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The Workshop Lectures - Volume 1

68 pages, paperback, Slate & Shell, 1. edition 2006

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FOREWORD
Yilun Yang 7P is one of the most popular go teachers in the US. He has many Internet students, holds frequent workshops around the country, and has published many books about the game and his special approach to playing it, emphasizing following precepts rather than memorizing patterns and sequences.
Yang was born in China in 1951 and had an active career as a professional go player and teacher there, before coming to the US in 1986. He lives near Los Angeles, California. You can contact him at yly_go@yahoo.com .
Yang's workshops typically involve several lectures and thorough analyses of the games participants play each day. In the lectures he guides players through the unusual approach to thinking about and playing the game that he has worked out during many years of teaching. He believes that play should be guided by applying easily understood principles rather than by memorizing common patand special sequences. This even applies to playing joseki, especially complicated ones, as one of the lectures in this book makes clear.
Yang argues that there are too many variables in go to make memorizing set patterns very efficient, but there are a relatively small number of easy to understand precepts that can effectively guide players' reading and play in every situation that arises. The three lectures in this book present some of these guidelines that are especially applicable to the opening stage of the game.
The first two lectures were given at the Yang Workshop in Germantown, Maryin March 2006, and the third was delivered to the Yang Workshop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in November 2005. They give the reader a small taste of the exciting approach to the game that Yang has developed and that he spells out in detail in the lectures and game analyses at his workshops. The actual lectures had more variations (many considered in response to questions by parthan could be included in these print versions, but the main points are fully covered.
The first lecture in this volume, "When to Tenuki in the Opening", presents Yang's general guidelines for determining whether or not to tenuki in a situation and then considers in detail a special type of situation in which a tenuki is appropriate, although the general guidelines would suggest otherwise. In effect, Yang shows us a somewhat more complicated principle that leads to a higher level of play.
In the second lecture, "Choosing the Direction of Attack," Yang offers three clear guides for deciding from which direction to make an attack. Applying these guides in reading requires some practice and the development of a good understanding of such things as when stones are weak, what sort of area holds good potential for benefit, and what makes an attack severe. Numerous examples set the reader on the right path.
The third lecture, "Playing Complicated Joseki", is a quite complex analysis. It focuses on the situation that leads to the famous "taisha" joseki, but shows how to deal with the situation in terms of basic principles of fighting rather than by memorizing lengthy, complicated sequences. In this lecture Yang provides brief introductions to several basic guides for various types of fighting. For readers unfamiliar with Yang's principles, this lecture will require very careful and repeated readings to fully appreciate the wealth of material it contains.

William Cobb
June 2006
More Information
EAN 9781932001297
Weight 130 g
Manufacturer Slate & Shell
Width 15.2 cm
Height 22.2 cm
Medium Book
Year of Publication 2006
Author YiLun Yang
Language English
Edition 1
ISBN-10 1932001298
ISBN-13 9781932001297
Pages 68
Binding paperback
001 When to Tenuki in the Opening
019 Choosing the direction of Attack
048 Playing complicated Joseki