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Go for Beginners | 
 enlarge | Author: Kaoru Iwamoto
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
List Price: $12.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 81045
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0394733312
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780394733319
ASIN: 0394733312
Publication Date: March 12, 1977
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Product Description
Go, an ancient, subtly beautiful game of territory, is the oldest game in the world still played in its original form. This book contains its rules, techniques, a glossary of terms, and a list of international and American Go organizations.
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 Go for Beginners Book Fell Apart July 14, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Book was used and showed signs of discoloring. After a couple of uses of book for reference- pages began to fall out.
 MAYBE A BIT TOO ADVANCED July 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read Yasunari Kawabata's "The Master of Go" a couple of months ago, and I was so thrilled by the novel and so puzzled to know what this game was about, that I bought a 13x13 goban (the only size available in my country right now) , and I ordered immediately Cho Chikun's "Go: A Complete introduction To The Game" and Iwamoto's "Go for Beginners". I started with this book, and quite soon I had to stop: it was just a little bit too much for a real beginner, and sometimes, diagrams were hard to read because the print has some minor flaws. I gave this book four stars though, because actually it IS a great book, but the problem is: it's hard to read for someone who starts from zero. So, Once I'm done with Cho Chikun's own primer, I'll go back to Iwamoto's little book. Then, I think, I'll have the muscle to follow the explanations.
 The best way to learn go November 17, 2007
Having played and taught go for 35 years, and having seen many books come and go, I still consider Go for Beginners to be the best book to introducing the game and to teach some of the basics. Compared to most such books, this one is actually fun with some anecdotes.
Good, a lot of content in it. July 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This a very good introductory book. If you have played around 10 games and and least won some, this is probably a good book for you. It could be too hard for a total newcomer who doesn't even know the rules. For them I would recommend either learning from the web and playing a bit before, or "Learn to Play Go, Volume 1" from Janice Kim, which is a lot simpler, but shallower, so you'll want more very soon.
informative March 22, 2007
This is my first book on Go. Hard to understand but quick to read through. I read it through in two days and i'm just starting to digest it all.
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