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The Workshop Lectures
Transcripts from lectures given November 2-4, 2006 by Yilun Yang, 7 dan professional.
There were 5 individual lectures, each making up a chapter:
1) Playing the Opening
2) Development Around the 4-4 Point
3) Punishing Weak Groups Directly
4) Using Forcing Moves
5) Handling Weak Stones
There were 5 individual lectures, each making up a chapter:
1) Playing the Opening
2) Development Around the 4-4 Point
3) Punishing Weak Groups Directly
4) Using Forcing Moves
5) Handling Weak Stones
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76 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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October 14, 2010
Yilun Yang is well known in the go community not only for his creative life and death problems, but for his skills as a teacher. He has boiled much of the basics of this very complex game down to a few basics. Anyone who has read and studied "The Fundamental Principles of Go" will recognize the principles applied here.
The first day of lectures build the first two chapters; Playing the Opening and Developments around the 4-4 point. The first gives one the basics on how to rank opening moves and some basic examples. The second moves on to how things might develop around the 4-4 point while keeping these principles in mind. It is refreshing in that he doesn't simply give joseki to memorize. He shows lines of development and how the principles apply to them and what is best.
The last 3 chapters will, I believe, be of the greatest utility to me as fighting is my weakness. Knowing how to punish weak groups is something most people could stand to learn. The chapter on forcing moves certainly ties in as it certainly is an important tool in defending one's own groups. Also, the discussion focuses primarily on a running battle, an area in which I have long suffered
Finally, he covers how to handle weak stones. It boils down to one of three options; live, escape, or sacrifice. The beginning question is whether the stone is valuable or important. Mr. Yang provides his own definitions for those. There are examples of course, though in the case of one I wish I had been attending just so I could ask a question. There seems to be a weakness in the final position on p.68 and I can't figure out what I'm missing.
But overall a great book and if I had one real complaint is that the material is rather scant for the price. That is to be expected given that it comes from some lectures, but it would be nice to see several of the volumes gathered together.
The first day of lectures build the first two chapters; Playing the Opening and Developments around the 4-4 point. The first gives one the basics on how to rank opening moves and some basic examples. The second moves on to how things might develop around the 4-4 point while keeping these principles in mind. It is refreshing in that he doesn't simply give joseki to memorize. He shows lines of development and how the principles apply to them and what is best.
The last 3 chapters will, I believe, be of the greatest utility to me as fighting is my weakness. Knowing how to punish weak groups is something most people could stand to learn. The chapter on forcing moves certainly ties in as it certainly is an important tool in defending one's own groups. Also, the discussion focuses primarily on a running battle, an area in which I have long suffered
Finally, he covers how to handle weak stones. It boils down to one of three options; live, escape, or sacrifice. The beginning question is whether the stone is valuable or important. Mr. Yang provides his own definitions for those. There are examples of course, though in the case of one I wish I had been attending just so I could ask a question. There seems to be a weakness in the final position on p.68 and I can't figure out what I'm missing.
But overall a great book and if I had one real complaint is that the material is rather scant for the price. That is to be expected given that it comes from some lectures, but it would be nice to see several of the volumes gathered together.
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