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TUTTLE PUBLISHES BOZULICH’S “WINNING GO”

Tuttle, the mainstream publisher of three books on go by Peter Shotwell, has added another title, but this time, he is only the co-author, while the principal author is none other than Richard Bozulich, the architect of the Kiseido catalog. Winning Go, like his Kisedo publications, is a problem book. But whereas other problem books usually focus on a a single subject -- joseki, tesuji, life-and-death -- Winning Go gives us a little of everything. Problems from all aspects of the game are organized into one book, designed to help kyu-level players discover their strengths and weaknesses, with suggestions for further study. Personally, I prefer the Kiseido format, where several problems appear on one page, and you turn the page to see the answers. Here the answers appear below the problems--cheaters beware! If you have made it solidly into the SDK range, you should easily solve most of the problems; but it's a unique resource for advanced beginners. I've been playing a friend some nine-stone games, and I'm putting it on his Christmas list. -- reported by Roy Laird