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Life and Death

157 pages, paperback, Kiseido, 2. edition 1996

From the series »Elementary Go Series«

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Following the general pattern of its predecessor Tesuji, this book organizes over two hundred life-and-death problems and examples into thirty-six short chapters. Noteworthy features include:
-The "status" approach, which takes the reader through the same analysis that he should perform in actual play.
-The grouping of the problems around common tesujis - throw-in, placement, etc. - and standard shapes - the one-, two, and three-space notchers on the sides, the corner L groups, etc.
-A logical, step-by-step development, which makes Life and Death first an excellent text to learn from, then an invaluable reference work to come back to.
More Information
EAN 4906574130
Weight 158 g
Manufacturer Kiseido
Medium Book
Year of Publication 1996
Author James Davies
Series Elementary Go Series
Language English
Edition 2
ISBN-10 4906574130
ISBN-13 978-4-906574-13-1
Pages 157
Binding paperback
007 Introduction
013 1. Unsettled Three
018 2. Six Die, Eight Live
022 3. Four- and Five-Space Eyes
026 4. Rabbity Six
030 5. One-Space Notchers
034 6. Shortage of Liberties
038 7. Two-Space Notchers
042 8. An Eye in the Interior
046 9. Three-Space Notchers
050 10. False Eyes and Placement Techniques
054 11. The Door Group is Dead
058 12. Incomplete Shapes
063 13. Review Problems
066 14. To Make One Eye
071 15. Half Eyes
073 16. Bent Four in the Corner
078 17. The One-Two Points, Etc
082 18. Placement: Attack and Defense
086 19. Throw-Ins
090 20. The L Group
094 21. The First L+1 Group
098 22. The Second L+1 Group
102 23. The L+2 Group
106 24. The Tripod Group
110 25. The J Groups
114 26. Hane for Ko
118 27. The Long L Group
122 28. Seki in the Corner
126 29. The Carpenter's Square
130 30. The Weak Carpenter's Square
134 31. More Corner Positions
138 32. Live or Link Up
142 33. Threat to Capture
146 34. Under the Stones
150 35. The Difference a Liberty Makes
154 36. Building Eye Shape


When I started to play the game of go in the United States, books of life-and-death problems were not available, so I studied the subject on my own by attempting systematically to analyze some of the shapes that kept appearing on the board. This was a time-consuming project. In some cases it took years to reach the right answer. In a few cases, equal time was spent in reaching the wrong answer. Right or wrong, the answers went into the first edition of this book, which, by emphasizing the status of standard groups, has apparently helped many players to win games. The second edition takes the same approach as the first edition and largely contains the same material, but corrects the mistakes that have been pointed out over the years.
A number of people have contributed to this book in various ways. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the assistance of the following:
1) Stuart Dowsey, who, before he left Japan, put together a collection of life-and-death problems into which I dipped two or three times;
2) James Kerwin, who took time to read the final draft of the first edition and was responsible for a number of corrections and improvements;
3) my wife Toshiko, who cut and pasted into the manuscript all of the eight hundred twenty-two diagrams;
4) Mark Boon, Richard Hunter, Pierre Colmez, and others who pointed out various errors that remained in the first edition.

James Davies, Yokohama, August 1996, preface
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