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How to Play Handicap Go Ref: 1-SL10 Intermediate level - Game Analysis. Extremely thorough, with few moves per diagram to make it easy to follow. Explains what both players are (and what they should be) trying to do on virtually every play. As a result, strategy and tactics are understandable to any level. Weaker players will find the detailed commentaries one of the most attractive features. Any person's handicap will benefit enormously from reading it.(183 pages; 280 grams; 14 x 21.5 cms) Price: £14.50 Quantity:

Pro-Pro Handicap Go - 100 Battles, 100 Wins Ref: 1-Y13 Intermediate level - Game Analysis. Designed to teach how to get the most out of handicap stones placed against stronger players. Model play is illustrated in easy to understand game figures and explanatory diagrams. Games are analysed in terms weaker players can easily comprehend. Use of graphic symbols indicate moves you should work hard to understand and utilise in order to improve. A thoroughly enjoyable book to read while also learning. (220 pages; 360 grams; 18 x 20 cms) Price: £21.95 Quantity:

Handicap Go (Nihon Ki-in Handbook; Vol 4) Ref: 1-Y33 Intermediate level - Explanatory. Intended to be the bible of handicap Go, it strives to distill the essence of 9 through 3 handicap games and selected patterns most likely to arise. Geared to the significance of the placement of handicap stones and the correct way to assess the opening. Therefore, the motto here is the ironclad rule for black in handicap Go, 'Strike in the opening'. (236 pages; 320 grams; 14 x 21.5 cms) Price: £17.95 Quantity:

Cosmic Go - A Guide to Four-Stone Handicap Games Ref: 1-K69 Intermediate level - Expanatory book focusing on handicap Go showing how to create thickness and then use it to construct moyos and pick advantageous fights. (176 pages; 250 grams; 15 x 21 cms) Price: £14.95 Quantity:

Galactic Go - A Guide to 3-Stone Handicap Games; Vol 1 Ref: 1-Y27 Intermediate level - Explanatory. Guides your intuition to develop a whole board vision, sharpens a keen sense of direction, spot sparkling tesujis and makes shape in various stages of the game. Developing thickness, and using it to attack, is a recurrent theme. Each joseki is analysed in the game context, with more than 400 full board analyses. Study diligently and you will be taking only two stones from opponents who have routinely given you a more. (261 pages; 330 grams; 13 x 20.5 cms) Price: £17.95 Quantity:

Galactic Go - A Guide to 3-Stone Handicap Games; Vol 2 Ref: 1-Y32 Intermediate level - Explanatory. Explores 3-stone handicap strategies, addressing games that begin when a White stone on the 3-4 point is answered by either a 1- or 2-space high or a 2-space low approach. Strong amateur v. pro games are analysed in depth through question-and-answer. Old and new josekis alike are used, analysed and altered to account for the three handicap stones in play. Learn to sense a correct direction of play, to build thickness, and how to leverage these attacks. (204 pages; 280 grams; 14 x 21.5 cms) Price: £17.95 Quantity:

Masterpieces of Handicap Go; Vol 1 Ref: 1-SL02 Intermediate level - Games Analysis. Collection of famous handicap games; heavily commented, these are ideal for study. Unusually thorough, discussing the players' basic strategies as well as particular tactics, and is presented in such a way that kyu levels find it as useful as dan levels. An outstanding attraction is the discussion of the special strategy appropriate for handicap games for Black and White. (186 pages; 280 grams; 14 x 21.5 cms) Price: £14.50 Quantity:

Masterpieces of Handicap Go; Vol 2 Ref: 1-SL06 Intermediate level - Games Analysis. Collection of famous handicap games; heavily commented, these are ideal for study. Unusually thorough, discussing the players' basic strategies as well as particular tactics, and is presented in such a way that kyu levels find it as useful as dan levels. An outstanding attraction is the discussion of the special strategy appropriate for handicap games for Black and White. (190 pages; 290 grams; 14 x 21.5 cms) Price: £14.50 Quantity:

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