Go! More Than a Game

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 200 pages
• Published by: Tuttle Publishing
• Edition: 1st Edition August 15, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 080483475X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0804834759
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 14.4 ounces

Reader Reviews
There are two games of Go, the forest-and-trees welter of confusion that a beginner sees, and the game within the game that everyone else comes to terms with. Shotwell's book can bring you past the boulders of confusion and leave you standing beside the deep water. Whether you swim or not... :) He's also a geisha, in the well-known Reischauer/Culture of Japan academic style, so much of the book is full of reverent Taoist and Kung Fu mysticism which may be fun, but should be transcended as soon as you "see" the inner game. It's beside the point. Bottom line, I like this book. It nudged my game forward. That said, if you want to learn Go, you should get a good computer Go game, like Go4++ (Windows, commercial) or Sente Goban (Mac OS X, freeware), dumb it down and play until you win. Then come back to this book. There's a lot of satisfaction in that first win against a computer, and it helps the book make sense. Comment | | (Report this)