Cross-Cut Workshop

by Richard Hunter

Reprint [with permission] of a series of articles published in the British Go Journal, with corrections and extra problems. Second Edition includes improved page layout by Bill Cobb.

Genres: Go

65 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Richard Hunter is vice president and Gartner Fellow at Gartner, Inc., where his recent work has focused on matters of interest to CIOs. Hunter is the author of "World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing" (Wiley&Sons, NYC, 2002), “IT Risk: Turning Business Threats Into Competitive Advantage” (Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2006), and “The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value” (Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2009), the latter two works with co-author George Westerman. He is in much demand as a speaker and advisor to CIOs.
Mr. Hunter was elected a Gartner Fellow in 2003. He holds a bachelor's degree in music from Harvard University. He is a world-class harmonica player who continues to compose and perform; his first book, “Jazz Harp” (Oak Publications, NYC) has been in continuous print since 1980, and is the world’s best-selling method for jazz and rock harmonica players.

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cross-cuts are played frequently. This thin volume with the gaudy blue cover provides information to replace the simple well-known proverb with a more in-depth analysis and offers several replies, based on [you guessed it] the surrounding position.

The author presents nine 'typical' responses to the crosscut, so you could say that the proverb applies approximately ten percent of the time.

Like all good go books, this one includes a couple of sets of problems for the reader to apply his/her learning. My percentage of correct answers is a whopping five percent, so I have lots more to learn from this book.