Recent Changes to the Go Bibliography

This file contains a list of recent changes to the go bibliography. For a more detailed list of changes, look here.

February 13, 2005: Erwin Gerstorfer contributed a guest review of Goh or Wei Chi.
August 29: Nemesis updates.
May 31: Added review of Go! More Than a Game. Various updates to my TODO list and the list of forthcoming books. (Incidentally, the AOL e-mail problems mentioned below have gone away.)
April 7: Corrin Lakeland has given a full review of Enclosure Josekis. Die Mitte des Himmels has been reprinted.
March 21: Added reviews of The Girl Who Played Go and Liping Huang's Problem Series; added my own comments to review of The ABC's of Attack and Defense.
February 19, 2004: Mentioned problems with AOL e-mail.
November 13: Added review of A Scientific Introduction to Go.
November 2: Added review of 200 Endgame Problems, and for the second volume of Learning from the Masters.
August 15: Added more info on the Dictionary of Go Names.
August 10: Added review of Counting Liberties and Capturing Races.
August 2: www.gobooks.info is no longer an alias to my Stanford page. Die Mitte des Himmels will be reprinted soon.
May 12: Added review of Making Good Shape.
March 19: Added review of Go as Communication. Updated Slate & Shell forthcoming books info.
March 18: Added review of How to Play Handicap Go.
March 9: I've added a paragraph about volume 4 of Go Problems for Kyu Level Players.
January 6, 2003: I've finally added Five Hundred and One Opening Problems; sorry for the delay.
December 31: Lots of new forthcoming books. And apparently Opening Theory Made Easy has finally been reprinted!
September 20: Tristan Jones has reviewed The ABC's of Attack and Defense. Tidied/updated Slate & Shell forthcoming books info.
September 18: Added review of Handicap Go.
September 16: Added link on top page to AGA index. Added review of Periodigo.
September 15: Review of Yilun Yang's Go Puzzles and Keshi and Uchikomi. Comments by Mats Nygren on 1001 Life-and-Death Problems.
June 28: Review of The Book of Go.
June 27: The URL <http://www.gobooks.info/> now works for these pages. Also, review of Monkey Jump Workshop.
June 13: Full review for One Thousand and One Life-and-Death Problems.
May 17: Galactic Go, vol. 2, exists. And I finally found a copy of Invitation to Go!
April 18: Updated Star Point Joseki review slightly; added preliminary review for One Thousand and One Life-and-Death Problems.
April 17: Added review/rant for Star Point Joseki.
April 8: Kiseido forthcoming books info.
March 21: Review for Tricks in Joseki.
March 13: Review for Go for Kids; misc. updates to forthcoming books.
February 22, 2002: Slate & Shell forthcoming books update.
December 3: A couple of forthcoming books updates.
December 2: Added review for The Go Player's Almanac 2001.
November 29: Added review for the amazingly bad An Introduction of Korean Badook.
November 6: Added review for Learning from the Masters.
November 3: Added reviews for Get Strong at Attacking and Go Problems for Kyu Level Players. Updated info about Charles Matthews and S. J. Kim's forthcoming book.
October 1: Added Robert Jasiek's reviews.
August 28: Updated Slate & Shell forthcoming books info.
August 24: Completely rewrote the review for Go Proverbs by David Mitchell, now that it's available again.
August 22: Review for Come Up to Shodan.
August 21: Review for Cross-Cut Workshop.
August 10: Review for Masterpieces of Handicap Go.
August 5: Full page for Life and Death: Intermediate Level Problems; updated pages for Improve Your Intuition and Art of Capturing Stones.
July 31: Randy Bradley comments on Get Strong at Tesuji.
July 30: Tom Rose comments on various go books.
July 25: Updated the forthcoming books and to do pages to reflect books I've acquired recently.
July 24: Updated review of Get Strong at the Opening; added others' comments to the teaching page, Opening Theory Made Easy (plus some of my own), and Get Strong at Tesuji.
June 19: Full review of Improve Your Intuition.
May 25: Added entry for Slate & Shell, full review of Understanding How to Play Go, and brief page for Improve Your Intuition.
March 26: Added entry for the Hankuk Kiwon, and review of the Hankuk Kiwon Guide Book and of Jungsuk in Our Time; in the latter review, I've compared various joseki dictionaries (to some extent).
March 23: Full review for How to Destroy and Preserve; added strength ratings in bibliography by difficulty.
January 22: Update on forthcoming status of Milton N. Bradley's Go for Kids.
January 8: Lots of info about Good Move Press's forthcoming books.
January 2, 2001: Full review for Galactic Go, vol. 1, by Chatterjee and Yang.
December 21: Added brief page for Galactic Go vol. 1. More updates to forthcoming books, and minor revisions to Whole Board Thinking in Joseki, now that I've read the second volume.
December 20: Added page for The World of Chinese Go, by Guo Juan; updated forthcoming books.
December 1: Added page for Fuseki, by the Nihon Kiin.
November 29: The French bibliography has moved.
June 29: Review of Pair Go; I'm all caught up again!
June 27: Review of How to Improve Our Go Power.
June 23: Review of Lee Changho's Novel Plays and Shapes.
June 8: Guo Juan's book on Chinese go is almost done.
May 15: Charles Matthews and Seong-June Kim's shape book is almost done.
March 15: Full review of First Kyu.
March 14: Full review of A Way of Play for the 21st Century.
February 14: Created pages for A Way of Play for the 21st Century, Lee Changho's Novel Plays and Shapes, and First Kyu. No real content to them, though.
February 11: Added Cosmic Go.
January 28: Added comments by Georg Snatzke to Get Strong at the Endgame.
January 21: Added comments by Patrick Bridges to Go for Beginners, volumes one and two of Learn to Play Go, Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, and Graded Go Problems for Beginners.
December 16: Added Teach Yourself Go.
December 10: Minor updates to forthcoming books page. And new (and better) Yutopian blurb links for their books.
December 7: Finished review of Cho Hunhyun: Life and Master Games.
November 22: Finished review of Art of Capturing Stones.
November 10: Cover pictures of almost everything, thanks to Pelle Evensen; review of The Game of Go (thanks to Adam Atkinson).
November 1: Brief notes on Cho Hunhyun: Life and Master Games.
October 22: Reviews of Strategic Fundamentals In Go and Art of Capturing Stones; Comments by Steven van Dijk on Learn to Play Go, vol. 1; comments by John Rae on Master Go in Ten Days.
October 20: I'm a father, and have been for three months, which explains some of the delay. Anyways, a few updates on forthcoming books, comments by Gaétan Gouge on Go for Beginners and Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game, changes to the Yutopian comments, comments by Dan Schmidt on Cho Hun-hyeon's Lectures on Go Techniques, comments by Doug Larson on The World of Ki.
May 12: Added a bit more to reviews of Get Strong at Handicap Go; and Proverbs.
April 14: Added a rumor to the new Other Publishers section of the forthcoming books page.
April 13: Created entry for Proverbs, and added more Yutopian forthcoming info.
April 12: Added extremely brief review of An Easy Introduction to Go, and created an entry for Get Strong at Handicap Go. Also, I'm going to try to be better about the To Do list.
April 6: New forthcoming info about Yutopian and Kiseido.
April 2: Updated review of In the Beginning.
February 12: More Kiseido and Schaak info.
January 6, 1999: Planned Kiseido reprints.
December 28: Added Essential Joseki and Dictionary of Go Names; updated The Second Book of Go.
December 22: More stuff in the French bibliography; also added comments by Paul Brennan about The 3-3 Point and Nie Weiping on Go.
December 18: More info about forthcoming Yutopian books.
December 11: New due date for Learn to Play Go, Vol. V.
December 7: Added new stuff to the French bibliography.
October 30: Added comments by Dan Schmidt on All about Life and Death, EZ-GO, and Graded Go Problems.
October 29: Added info about a forthcoming book by Milton N. Bradley.
October 27: Added link to PDF version of The Way to Go.
September 17: Fleshed out review of Cho Hun-hyeon's Lectures on Go Techniques and added review of Winning a Won Game.
September 16: Officially moved the site.
August 31: Updated the list of books I'm looking for.
July 28: Yutopian has published some new books.
July 14: Added new stuff to the French bibliography.
July 7: Added Cho Hun-hyeon's Lectures on Go Techniques and mention of internet edition of On the Rules of Go.
June 16: New Yutopian forthcoming books info. Also mentioned the second edition of Learn to Play Go, vol. 1.
June 10: Added review of El Go: Un Juego Oriental Milenario.
May 6: Added to review of Rescue and Capture; changed Yutopian comments.
April 30: Put in a real review of Learn to Play Go, vol. 4, and updated the reviews of other volumes in the series (especially the third volume.) Also added a thanks list on the top page.
April 29: Put in real review of Intermediate Level Power Builder.
April 24: Added a bit to the review of Go: A Complete Introduction to the game, and changed the review of The Magic of Go to point to it.
April 21: Added Intermediate Level Power Builder, and updated Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game and Learn to Play Go, Vol. 4: Battle Strategies.
April 20: Added Kambayashi's Go Game for Beginners.
April 17: Added info about forthcoming Yutopian publications, and some interesting comments by Tim Jennings about Takagawa's books.
April 16: The First Book of Go is out of print, alas.
April 2: Added uninformative page on Learn to Play Go, vol. 4; deleted some of the old forthcoming stuff.
March 9: Added link to some similar pages for books in Italian.
February 23: Expanded review of Get Strong at Life and Death and updated Learn to Play Go v.4 status.
February 10: Added Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game.
January 31: Added How to Play Go Game.
January 23, 1998: Added comments by Lukas Biewald on various of the books.
December 30: Added info about planned Kiseido reprints.
December 19: Added Rescue and Capture. Also updated Graded Go Problems v.1, Attack and Defense, and Reducing Territorial Frameworks entries to reflect the fact that they'd been reprinted.
December 15: Added Rescue and Capture info to Yutopian forthcoming books.
November 25: Updated Ishi Press comments.
November 24: Added brief review of Get Strong at Life and Death. Added some Kiseido forthcoming books info. Added to review of Steppingstones to Go.
November 20: Added more to my review of The 3-3 Point; also added comments by Dan Schmidt to reviews of Attack and Defense, Handicap Go, The Power of the Star Point, The 3-3 Point, and Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go.
November 12: Added rumor about a book about Cho Hunhyun to be published by Nemesis Enterprises.
November 10: Added rumor about some books of Go Seigen to be published by Yutopian.
November 7: Fully fleshed out my review of Fighting Ko.
November 6: Added mention of Instant Go to my review of EZ-GO.
November 2: Added some stuff to my review of Get Strong at the Endgame.
October 31: Removed my review of the Perec book, since Didier has reviewed it.
October 28: Updated difficulty levels for the Graded Go Problems series.
October 21: Changed over to using style sheets to set the background color. This shouldn't affect those of you who are using newer browsers; if you're using an older browser and the background color for these pages just changed, that's why. If you liked it the old way and can't upgrade browsers, sorry about that; you may want to consider changing the default colors in your browser.
October 17: Yutopian will be publishing a book called Essential Joseki, and Kiseido will be printing a new edition of The Magic of Go.
October 16: Yutopian really will be publishing a second edition of The First Book of Go, it seems. And Kiseido really has reprinted volume one of Graded Go Problems for Beginners.
October 15: Updated some rumors about books from Kiseido and Schaak.
October 13: Added mention of volume 2 of Whole Board Thinking in Joseki, and added some more comments to its review. Also, I changed the address of that page to whole-board.html rather than wb1.html; update your links.
October 10: Added a review of Invitation to Go.
October 7: Added a review of Igo Hatsuyo-ron.
October 3: Added comments by Tim Hunt to the review of Get Strong at Joseki.
October 2: Added comments by Elliott Pitilon to the review of The First Book of Go.
September 23: More books were added to the French bibliography.
September 21: Added review of The First Book of Go, lengthened the reviews of Go for Beginners and The Magic of Go, and added more comments about the relative merits of different beginners' books here.
September 16: Added review of Beauty and the Beast.
August 15: Added reviews of Get Strong at the Endgame and How to Play Go.
August 11: Added new forthcoming books info for Schaak and Kiseido.
June 29: Updated review of A Compendium of Trick Plays.
June 25: Created this file. Got rid of most of the rumors about Yutopian's forthcoming books; here's why. Updated publication info on the Graded Go Problems for Beginners series. Changed my want list in this file
June 24, 1997: added entry for The Vital Points of Go; created Changelog.

david carlton <carlton@bactrian.org>

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