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Let me preface this section by saying that my Chinese reading ability is pretty lackluster, and that while I can get by tsumego books fine as well as tesuji/life and death dictionaries with minimal difficulty, it takes me a really long time to go through commented pro games because I have to spend a lot of time processing sentences in my mind and then looking up words if they are key to the meaning and I don’t know them. Sometimes what I know is enough to get the jist of what the author is trying to say, but it’s still tedious to go through books with a lot of text. Thanks in advance to Sensei’s Library (http://senseis.xmp.net/?ChineseGoBooks) for helping me with translations of titles.
***李昌镐精讲围棋死活 (Lee Changho’s Selected Life and Death Problems)—Lee Changho***
This is series of 6 volumes of increasing difficulty, each with around 123 problems. I’d say that the first three volumes are SDK level, and latter three volumes are dan level. This is a great set to get for tsumego practice (if you do buy it, buy the whole set at once instead of individual volumes), particularly once you hit the dan levels. Definitely worth multiple run-throughs until you have mastered all of the problems! 10/10; 1d+
***李昌镐精讲围棋手筋 (Lee Changho’s Selected Tesuji Problems)—Lee Changho***
This is also a series of 6 volumes of generally increasing difficulty, each with around 123 problems. I’d say that the first three volumes are SDK level, the fourth volume is DDK/SDK level (it’s just about nets, throw-ins, and squeezes and took me around 15 minutes to do the whole book when I was around 4d-5d or so), and the fifth and sixth volumes are dan level. Like the Life and Death set, these problems (particularly those in the fifth and sixth volumes) are great sets to practice tesuji once you master the problems in Get Strong at Tesuji. 10/10; 1d+
坂田荣男围棋全集 (全十二冊) (Sakato Eio Perfect Weiqi Collection)—Sakata Eio
This is a set of 12 books; the first nine are about different areas of Go, and the latter three are small collections of commented pro games. I asked my mom if she could buy me this set for my birthday (I think in 2012) when she went back to visit China. My good friend Calvin Sun 1p recommended these books when I was asking about what good Chinese books there were that were worth getting. Ricky Zhao 7d also praised these books as really good when we were walking by the vendors at the 2014 Go Congress and talking about Go books. Now unfortunately, these books are rather text heavy and thus take me a really long time to read and understand (I’m still only 50 pages into the first volume after all this time). Thus, I can’t really say too much about this series as I haven’t even opened the other 11 volumes, but if you can read Chinese, you can rest assured that they’re probably decent books, as they were recommended by Calvin Sun 1p.
围棋死活辞典(上卷) (Cho Chikun’s Life and Death Dictionary)—Cho Chikun
In the summer of 2012, my good friend Yunxuan Li went to the Ge Yuhong Dao Chang (Ge Dao), a Go school in Beijing. He asked me if I wanted any books, so I told him that if really wanted to, he could get me whatever he wanted, although preferably not text-heavy. So at the 2012 Go Congress, he gave me this book and the two right below it, and I gave him an SAT book. Anyways, this book is the first half of the Cho Chikun’s Life and Death Dictionary. I actually read through the whole thing while waiting for the bus after school. It’s basically a dictionary on all of the basic life and death shapes, which is a pretty useful reference for internalizing the shapes by heart. Also, for those wondering, this book is the same as All about Life and Death, which was published in English by Ishi Press. 7.5/10; all ranks
围棋手筋辞典(上卷) (A Dictionary of Basic Tesuji)—Fujisawa Shuko
I actually have a funny story about this book. So when I was looking up the book names/author translations for these Chinese books, I realized that this is in fact the same dictionary as the one printed in English in four volumes by Slate and Shell. I had gotten the 3rd and 4th volumes (the second half) of the dictionary a long time ago, and had always meant to get the 1st and 2nd volumes at some point. Coincidentally, Yunxuan had gotten me the first half of the dictionary, which now completes my set! I also went through this whole book at the bus stop/on the bus, and like I said for the latter half of the dictionary, it’s a nice dictionary to have for references purposes and as part of a collection. 7.5/10; 3k+
围棋发阳论 (Igo Hatsuyoron)—Inoue Dosetsu Inseki
Ahh..not sure if Yunx wanted to kill me when he gave me this one. This problem set is the devil. I’m too scared to open it. Lol jk but as opposed to the English version I have, this one book has the entire problem set, whereas the English version is just the first third. Yep, still not going to touch it until I’ve mastered every other tsumego set I already have. 1.5/10 as practical study material; 10/10 as tryhard material if you're at least 7d; 7d+
***围棋棋经众妙 (Gokyo Shumyo)—Hayashi Genbi***
I think I got this book along with several others in my 2009 China trip (my only one thus far in my life). I don’t actually think I knew it was Gokyo Shumyo at the time, but just got it for whatever reason. It’s a classic tsumego collection on life and death/tesuji, and while I think it’s one of the easier sets of the classics (meaning low-mid dan), it’s definitely worth going through. 10/10; 1d-5d
围棋小辞典全套6册（布局） (Weiqi Small Dictionary Series—Opening)—Chengdu Shidai Publishing
I think I found this book (and the Tesuji one) in some store in a subway in China when I went in 2009. If you don’t know, Go books are pretty cheap in China (like 12-48 RMB/~$2-$8 USD). These dictionaries are pocket-sized, but still over 300 pages each and were only 12 RMB, so at the time I figured why not get them. I haven’t read through this book at all, but just by flipping through the pages, it looks pretty detailed and thorough.
围棋小辞典全套6册（手筋） (Weiqi Small Dictionary Series—Tesuji)—Chengdu Shidai Publishing
Similar to the above book (the Opening one), I haven’t read it, but it looks decent judging from a flip-through. It’s not very high on my to-read list though, so I probably won’t be updating this blurb anytime soon.
圍棋死活1000題 (Weiqi Life and Death 1000 Problems)—Wang Zhipeng
This book is probably one of the most popular Chinese Go books that people in America would know of (you might recognize it if you saw the cover). I’ve never actually gone through the whole book, but looking at the problems again they don’t look bad. There is only one diagram per solution, so you need to do the heavy-lifting to figure out why your wrong answers are wrong. The problems are divided by “stars” kind of like Get Strong at Tesuji, where one-star and two-star problems are around SDK level, and three-star problems are dan level. Not a bad resource for more tsumego! 8.5/10; 5k-5d
快乐围棋练习—业余八级攻略 (Happy Go Practice—8k level)—Yu Wenyu and Zhang Weizhu
Okay, I don’t know what a proper translation of the title would be, but this is basically what literally means. So when I was in China in 2009, I was at the mall one day with my family and brought this book around (I might have bought it there; I don’t remember, but I still have the receipt in the book for some reason). Anyways, I went off to some room in the corner of a bookstore to read it while I was waiting for the rest of my family to finish shopping, as it was quiet and had a couch. I ended up falling asleep at some point, and later awoke a little dazed. I stepped outside the bookstore and at some point found my family frantically rushing over to me. It turns out they couldn’t find me and asked the mall police to page for me over the intercom. Yea..whoops. I don’t know why I got the 8k-level version (I was 2d at the time), but I’d say the problems are a bit harder than 8k-level, but still definitely SDK level. The format of the book is kind of like that in Train Like a Pro, but with easier problems. 7/10; 5k-2k
围棋阶梯训练1000题:中级篇 (Step by Step Go Training 1000 Problems: Intermediate Level)—Wu Yulin
This book is mostly life and death problems with 71 whole-board opening/middle-game problems towards the end. Like most of the other Chinese books, the solutions are pretty concise with only one diagram each. This book says it’s only the intermediate level, but I think it’s more suitable for at least low-dan players. I think I even saw Eric Lui 8d at a tournament with this book before. I haven’t really gone through this book at all either, but hey, it’s another 1000 tsumego to work through one day! 8/10; 1d+
阶题围棋教室 从业余3段到业余6段 (Step by Step Go Classroom from 3d to 6d)—Huang Xiwen and Nie Weiping
This book is really big. Like…638 pages big. I was 2d when I got this book from a bookstore in Wangfujing in 2009, along with some other books. Apparently it’s part of a four-book series that covers…pretty much all areas of the game? It’s a bit too text-heavy for me to read easily so I never really dug into it (also the fact that it’s really long contributed to that). I did notice that towards the beginning of the book, it has a list of openings by win percentage (I assume in professional games), which I thought was kind of interesting. I don’t actually know too much else about it but you can read more about the series here.
阶梯围棋星级题库 从业余6段到专业棋手 (Step by Step Go Classroom from 6d to Professional Player)—Huang Xiwen and Nie Weiping
This book is from a slightly different sub-series from the book above (as I understand now, five and a half years after getting it) and is supposed to be a problem book. What’s interesting about it (after flipping through the pages) is that it’s not focused on life and death or tesuji, but rather on whole-board positions assumingly taken from pro games. It looks pretty interesting, but I probably won’t touch it for a long, long time. Like the book above, if you want to learn more about this series, you can go here.
围棋 (Go)
Uhh so…at the end of the 2010 New Jersey Open tournament, the guy I bought the box of Go Worlds from gave me a bunch of these Chinese Go magazines (you can see pictures of them on my Facebook page) from the 1980s for free. It appears to be a monthly publication (yes that is the actual title on the cover) with content topics similar to Go World, but I can’t seem to find any more information about it online.
***围棋天地 (The World of Weiqi)***
This is a semi-monthly magazine that is still published in China. Each issue is a bit over 100 pages long and has some color pages as well! To be honest, it’s basically a better version of Go World with more commentaries, articles, and higher quality magazine binding. It’s also pretty much dirt cheap if you were to buy it in China (12 RMB/$2 USD). To be honest, it is probably one of the best Go publications out there if you can read Chinese, as it is constantly updated with modern variations in the professional scene. Yunxuan bought me the 7/15/12 issue when he went to China in 2012, and while I can’t really read it well, it feels really nice. 10/10; 2d+
Epilogue
Before I give my more concise list of books that I would advise people read, I would like to just say that just because I didn’t find a book that educational or rated it low, that does not mean I didn’t gain anything from reading the book (for those that I still finished). After reading so many books, I probably still gained some knowledge from even the worse ones. In addition, some of the low ratings are because I believe there are more efficient methods to improvement for certain levels, but not necessarily because the book itself was bad (although it could have been). The books listed below are the ones that I think are MOST important and conducive for improvement. There are others that I rated somewhat highly but are not included in the list below because I felt that they either weren’t entirely necessary or as essential as the ones listed. The following list also does represent a loose order that you should read the books in.
30k-10k:
● My written guide for 30k-10k
● Opening Theory Made Easy (I didn’t list this book above because I never fully read it nor did I ever own it, but it’s good) by Otake Hideo
● Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Toshiro Kageyama
● Do beginner-level Go problems wherever, doesn’t have to be from a book
● Play a lot of games
9k-1k:
● Attack and Defense by Ishida Akira and James Davies
● 1001 Life and Death Problems by Richard Bozulich
● Reducing Territorial Frameworks by Fujisawa Shuko
● Get Strong at Tesuji by Richard Bozulich
● Graded Go Problems for Dan Players Volume 1: 300 Life and Death Problems (3k-3d)—Nihon Kiin/Kiseido (I’ve never picked this one up, but it’s probably just as good as volume 2)
● Graded Go Problems for Dan Players Volume 2: 300 Tesuji Problems (3k-3d)—Nihon Kiin/Kiseido
● Get Strong at the Endgame
● Reread Attack and Defense again as you get towards 1k
● Reread Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go
1d-4d
● The Direction of Play by Kajiwara Takeo
● Go World magazines (or just start reading commented pro games)
● Reread Attack and Defense one more time (maybe around 2d)
● Redo Get Strong at Tesuji again at 3d
● Reread Reducing Territorial Frameworks
● Graded Go Problems for Dan Players Volume 7: 256 Opening and Middle Game Problems (1d-7d) by the Nihon Kiin/Kiseido
● Lee Changho’s Selected Life and Death Problems volumes 1-6 by Lee Changho
● Lee Changho’s Selected Tesuji Problems volumes 1-6 by Lee Changho
● Xuanxuan Qijing (never done it but it’s a classic set)
● Gokyo Shumyo
● Reread Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go
● Positional Judgment by Cho Chikun
● Redo Graded Go Problems for Dan Players volumes 1 and 2 if you can’t figure out the answers within 30 seconds each
5d-6d
● Graded Go Problems for Dan Players Volume 4: 300 Life and Death Problems (4d-7d) by the Nihon Kiin/Kiseido
● Graded Go Problems for Dan Players Volume 5: 300 Tesuji Problems (4d-7d) by the Nihon Kiin/Kiseido
● Commented Games by Lee Sedol I, II, and III (when it comes out) by Lee Sedol and Lee Sena
● Reread Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go
● Reread The Direction of Play
● Reread Positional Judgment
● Do other classic tsumego sets other than Igo Hatsuyoron (a list can be found here: http://senseis.xmp.net/?ClassicalGoProblemBooks)
● Redo Lee Changho’s Selected Life and Death/Tesuji Problems volumes 5-6 if you can’t figure out the answers within 30 seconds each
● Redo Graded Go Problems for Dan Players volumes 4 and 5 if you can’t figure out the answers within 30 seconds each
● Learn to understand Chinese or Korean if you can’t already so you can watch WeiqiTV or BadukTV commentaries
7d+
● Learn to understand Chinese or Korean if you can’t already so you can watch WeiqiTV or BadukTV commentaries
● Redo previous life and death/tesuji sets if you don’t find them easy by now
● Don’t slack on playing serious games and make sure you review them thoroughly afterwards (you should really do this at all levels once you hit SDK)
● Embark on a treacherous journey that is Igo Hatsuyoron.
● ??? Idk lol, can’t really speak from experience here, but that’s what I would suggest.
Justin Teng is a 6d AGA/6d KGS/7d Tygem Go player who also streams occasionally on Twitch.tv. Find him on Twitch, Facebook, or Youtube! For a more thorough Go biography, you can click here. For his recommended tsumego sets for all levels, click here.
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