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Go
Seigen's Winning a Won Game
Go Seigen's Lecture Series Volume Two
by
Go Seigen, 9 dan.
Yutopian Enterprises, 1998.
Paperback,
166 pp.
This book
provides Three Golden Rules with examples of their application in actual
games and seven Go Seigen games highlighting Seven Examples of Success.
In addition Three Examples of Failure are provided in three other Go
Seigen games.
Yesterday,
a won game was lost; today, a clear lead was wasted. Is there any secret
recipe to keep the lead to the end of the game? Actually, maintaining
a lead is easy, if one can keep a cool head and make every play according
to positional judgment. On the other hand, trying to claim a quick victory
is not easy, even for professionals. In professional games, one often
encounters situations where a game is lost after building up a commanding
lead, or a game is won by turning the tables on the opponent.
The material
presented in this book highlights such cases. Among the strongest players
today, Cho Chikun and Kobayashi Koichi can be considered as the cream
of the crop. Both Cho and Kobayashi disclosed that they benefited enormously
from studying Go Seigen's some 800 games. From a young age of 10 to
25 Cho replayed the entire collection of Go Seigen's games three times
and is currently on his fourth. Kobayashi also even now, is still inspired
by replaying Go Seigen's games after studying his games three times.
Both of these top-notch players recommended that the best way to get
strong is to study Go Seigen's collected games.
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