Go Reviews

Essential Joseki
By Naiwei Rui 9P
Yutopian Enterprises
Reviewed by Lawrence Ku, 4k

           Essential Joseki’s author, Naiwei Rui, is one of the top female professional go players. Her book covers about 40 important joseki, along with more than 200 variations, which focus on the local situation rather than the whole board. The diagrams are very clear, and the explanations are easy to understand.

          “Essential Joseki” differs from other joseki books like “38 Basic Joseki” which only demonstrates a few moves for each variation. “Essential” provides much more detailed variations for many popular joseki. And unlike the 3-volume “Dictionary of Basic Joseki” which covers almost all kinds of variation in voluminous detail, “Essential” introduces new variations which I have never seen in any other joseki books.

           I like this one-volume joseki book because it covers most important joseki with some degree of details. I found this book to be very useful and easy to read, and I recommend this book to go players from 5k~6d.
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