How to Play Go: A Beginners to Expert Guide to Learn The Game of Go: An Instructional Book to Learning the Rules, Go Board, and Art of The Game

by Tim Ander

Discover the Fascinating Eastern Game That’s Lasted for Millennia!What is Go?Go is a deceptively simple two-player game, played on square boards of various sizes. According to legend, the Chinese Emperor Yau invented this game to teach his son concentration, balance, and discipline. Over time, this game spread to Japan – and across the globe. For over four millennia, war leaders and sages have consulted this game to learn strategy, wisdom, and mental mastery.

Inside How to Play Go, you’ll discover everything you need to know to play this ancient game. You’ll learn all the basics of capturing territory and pieces (including self-capture), handling dead stones, and mastering the endgame. This book explains the scoring system of Go – and how to grow from a beginner player to true mastery.

How to Play Go explains advanced Go concepts like the Ko Rule, Eyes, and Dead/Live Groups. You’ll discover Atari, Handicaps, Komi, Cutting, and much more!

Immerse yourself in a vast array of Go TerritoryCapturingThe Ladder and the NetGood/Bad ShapesPonnukiThe MouthConnections, Stretching, and DiagonalsOne-Point and Two-Point JumpsThe Knight Move and the Large Knight MoveWith this information, you can master this mystical game and increase your mental power!

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43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 21, 2017

Reviews

[Tim Murray · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is absolute garbage. Go lends itself well to simple black and white pictures, yet there is not a single picture in the entire book. This means that there are complicated descriptions, trying to explain fairly simple scenarios.

In addition, this book is very badly edited with typos and autocorrects throughout. For example: "the game is easier if you ahem your stones contained in some sort of bowl".

This book is very short, doesn't go into much detail at all and hasn't got good strategic advice. The only slight saving grace is that it is very cheap. However, you would learn a lot more by reading the wikipedia article (it has pictures and examples) and that is free.

Avoid this book.

[Lars Arendt · Rating 1 out of 5]

For a $3 book, I wasn’t expecting much—but even then, I’m giving it one star. A book about Go that focuses so heavily on structure should absolutely include illustrations. This one doesn’t have a single diagram—not one—which makes it nearly useless for learning. Looking at the author’s other titles, it seems like he is mass-producing cheap books on various games. I regret buying it; it feels like a low-effort cash grab.

Honestly, free online resources like "online-go.com/learn-to-play-go" are far more helpful, better structured, and include visual aids—everything this book is missing.

[Walter W. Holliday · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found the book to be short, simple and concise; like the basic elements of the game.

The above says it all. Worth while for the beginner... I would buy it again. I think that if you need to understand the basics, with this book you can not Go wrong :)...

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good basic introduction

This is a good introduction to the game. The Kindle version would be strengthened with pictures and has some spelling errors that cause temporary confusion. I was hoping for more depth, but I did learn from this.

[Shawn Mcdowell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Go

This book on the game Go is a very good book to start with and it has some really good advice.

[Andy · Rating 2 out of 5]

No depth. A book definitely aimed at beginners, but with no pictures? At least it only took me 10 minutes to read...

[Brett A Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pictures would go a long way to clarifying the concepts rather than attempting to "paint a word picture"

[Bob Connor · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a confusing choice to write a book like this with no pictures and verbal descriptions of the board instead.

[Liberty Valance · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why no diagrams