All about life and death - Volume 1 - A Basic Dictionary of Life and Death - By Cho Chikun

All About Life and Death
A Basic Dictionary of Life and Death
Volume One
by Cho Chikun, Honinbo
Translated by Bruce Olson
The Ishi Press
Tokyo, San Jose, London
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Contents
Volume One
Preface
Index
Explanatory Notes for Using this Book
Glossary
Part One
Life and Death on the Second Line
Part Two
Six-Spare Eye Shapes in the Corner
Part Three
Eight-Space Eye Groups in the Corner
Part Four
The Comb Patterns
Volume Two
Part Five
The Carpenter's Square
Part Six
Second Line Shapes on the Side
Part Seven
Third Line Shapes on the Side
Part Eight
Fourth Line Shapes on the Side
Part Nine: Practical Applications
The Star Point and the 3-3 point
Part Ten: Practical Applications
Various Ways of Invading
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Preface
These two volumes are a collection, in dictionary format, of shapes
from the basic to the practical, in which the issue is the life or death of
the groups involved. While it is presented in a problem format, you
shouldn't feel compelled to use it like you would a book on tsume-go
(life-and-death problems), wrestling with every problem from begin-
ning to end. On the contrary, this book is better suited to skipping
lightly from place to place as the mood strikes you or as your needs re-
quire. For example, both leafing through the book, stopping to careful-
ly study only those shapes which interest you, or going directly to the
solution diagram without working through the problem, are excellent
ways to use this book In fact, my fondest wish would be for you to
keep the book on your bedside table and fall asleep while looking over
a page or two. The objective of this book is to have you gradually, yet
painlessly acquire an appreciation for a basic approach to the problem
of life and death in go.
In anything, the fundamentals are important; if you neglect the them
your performance will surely suffer. For example, the very first pattern
in this text utilizes the three-space nakade (large eye inside a group)
shape. Since all life and death problems in go boil down to a question
of one eye or two, this shape must be considered the most basic. If you
are able to learn to think about problems of your own as a question of
'How can I reduce this to the three-in-a-row shape?' and then compare
this to the time when you didn't think about a problem in that way,
you'll be able to see that you've made significant progress.
September,1984
Cho Chikun
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Index for Volume One
Part One: Life and Death on the Second Line
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