A few simple rules ... limitless possibilities
February 2011
BGJ 127 Summer 2002
Reviewer: Matthew Macfadyen
ISBN 978-0-8069-2729-9
This beginners’ book provides a new variation on an old theme by including a miniature Go set which fits into a pocket bound into the book.
BGJ 125 Winter 2001
Reviewer: Brian Timmins
ISBN 0-9706193-6-7
Somewhere around 12 kyu I discovered that if I was in trouble against a weaker opponent then one retaliation, where possible, was make a cross-cut.
BGJ 123 Summer 2001
Reviewer: Matthew Macfadyen
ISBN 0-9676096-1-5
Go books appear at such a rate nowadays that the habits of the 1970’s, when most of the keener players read all the books as a matter of course, are hard to maintain.
BGJ 123 Summer 2001
Reviewer: Matthew Macfadyen
ISBN 1-9706193-0-8
Go books appear at such a rate nowadays that the habits of the 1970’s, when most of the keener players read all the books as a matter of course, are hard to maintain.
BGJ 123 Summer 2001
Reviewer: Matthew Macfadyen
ISBN 89-7990-123-2
Go books appear at such a rate nowadays that the habits of the 1970’s, when most of the keener players read all the books as a matter of course, are hard to maintain.
BGJ 122 Spring 2001
Reviewer: William Connolley
In my last game at the last London Open, both my opponent and I recorded our games on a Palm using – quick plug – PilotGOne:
they seem to becoming quite common.
BGJ 119 Summer 2000
Reviewer: Paul Hazelden
The good news: Go Professional III by Oxford Softworks is a nice, solid piece of Go-playing software. The bad news: it is, as far as I can tell, almost unchanged from the previous version. There may be some subtle changes to the Go engine, but as a rusty 8 kyu I haven’t worked out yet what they are.
BGJ 121 Winter 2000
Reviewer: Alan Barry
ISBN 1-889554-47-2
Subtitled A Guide to 3-Stone Handicap Games, Galactic Go is the first volume of a projected 4-volume series on 3-stone handicap games.
BGJ 121 Winter 2000
Reviewer: Andrew Grant
ISBN 1-889554-25-1
This is the second volume in the Nihon Ki-in’s Small Encyclopedia series, published by Yutopian.
BGJ 120 Autumn 2000
Reviewer: Matthew Macfadyen
ISBN 1-889554-52-9
The title of this book is not particularly informative, in fact it is a joseki book which says novel things about shapes in particular rather than in general.
The striking difference from any other joseki book in English is that