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Pair Go

138 pages, paperback/pocketbook, Eigenverlag, 1996

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Weight 160 g
Manufacturer Eigenverlag
Width 94 mm
Height 13.9 cm
Medium Book
Year of Publication 1996
Author Japan Pair Go Association
Language English
Pages 138
Binding paperback/pocketbook
Foreword

05 Chapter One: Signs of an International Boom
06 A fresh international game born in Japan
08 Depths inaccessible to the computer
09 The fascination of an art created by the sensibility of men and women
12 The Internet is 'hand talk'
13 Pair Go Year One
15 No longer just a hobby for middle-aged men
18 Lifestyles enjoyed in pairs
19 Surprised to find how interesting Pair Go is
22 The habit of reading four moves ahead (Kobayashi Satoru Gosei)

23 Chapter Two: That's Why It's Fun
How to Make the Most of Pair Go
24 The process is much more interesting than the result
24 The pleasure is doubled, the responsibility is halved
25 The combination of a happily married couple
26 An unlimited number of ideal partners
26 Thrilling games
28 Don't let your guard down: there are three opponents
29 Pair Go tournaments are fun
30 Getting stronger before you realize it
31 Strong players get weak players to teach them
32 A relaxing way to teach Go to beginners
34 Pair Go is the greatest (Takemiya Masaki Meijin)

35 Chapter Three: Rules and Etiquette
36 The Rules of Pair Go
43 Tournament Rules for the International Amateur Pair Go Championship
50 The important thing is consideration (Ishida Yoshio 9-dan)

51 Chapter Four: The Strategy of Pair Go
52 The secret of winning in Pair Go
55 So much to gain from Pair Go (Ogawa Tomoko 6-dan)
71 Every move is tense (Kato Tomoko 4-dan)
72 Main games from the 1st round

89 Chapter Five: An Exciting Game Played by the World's Top Amateur Pair



As a mental sport that transcends race and nationality and borders, Go is widely loved by the people of the world. It is our hope that Go will be enjoyed by even more people so that the Go population of the world can expand even further.
To help further this aim, we have devised and striven to popularize the game of Pair Go as a grass-roots tool for international communication, using black and white stones as the world's common language. As a result, the circle of Pair Go fans is expanding year by year. Since the holding of the 1st International Pair Go Championship in 1989, Pair Go has spread rapidly among Go fans around the world. Nowadays, Pair Go provides a new stage for formal socialization in countries around the world.
In recent years, the number of people enjoying Go on the Internet has been increasing rapidly, and there are now said to be nearly 10,000 people enjoying playing Go on the Internet. We have developed a system called the PANDA NET which uses highly developed software to facilitate playing Go by computer communications.
Pair Go and the PANDA NET: these tools are designed to expand the world's Go population by linking activity in countries around the world centring on the PGPP (Pair Go Promotion Partner) in each country. The aim is to increase the current Go-playing population of the world by three to five times, that is, to one hundred million. We are doing our best to ensure the attainment of this goal by the early 21 st century.
It is our hope that this book will also play a part in attaining our goal.

Yoshikuni Ichiro & Taki Hisao, preface
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