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A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T 19 18 A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T PLATE adversary beginner Black plays black stones BLACK WHITE Black would play BLACK'S MOVE Chess Chess openings Dame defend Diagram end positions following stones game of Go Go players group of stones HANDICAP BLACK HANDICAP Plate 22 handicap stone Honinbo Dosaku Honinbo Shuye Inseki ishi Japan Japanese Joseki Jowa kakari kill Kogeima Komoku Korschelt Murase Shuho necessary ninth degree Osaeru placed PLAYED AT H reply retains the Sente rule of Ko Sansha Seki Shogun shown in Plate side skill stone is played stones on line Takamoku Takes Tenuki vacant intersections vacant space White attacks WHITE BLACK white group White plays white stones WHITE'S MOVE Yasui Sanchi
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Page ix - ... rather than through the fighting of the common soldiers. Go, on the other hand, is not merely a picture of a single battle like Chess, but of a whole campaign of a modern kind, in which the strategical movements of the masses in the end decide the victory. Battles occur in various parts of the board, and sometimes several are going on at the aame time.
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Page ix - Go, on the other hand, is not merely a picture of a single battle like Chess, but of a whole campaign of a modern kind, in which the strategical movements of the masses in the end decide the victory. Battles occur in various parts of the board, and sometimes several are going on at the same time. Strong positions are besieged and captured, and whole armies are cut off from their line of communications and are taken prisoners unless they can fortify themselves in impregnable positions, and a far-reaching...
Page 60 - PLATE 13 territory, and beginners are likely to play their stones directly in contact with the advancing forces. This merely results in their being engulfed by the attacking line, and the stones and territory are both lost. If you wish to stop your adversary's advance, play your stones a space or two apart from his, so that you have a chance to strengthen your line before his attack is upon you. The next thing we will speak of is what the Japanese r* j call the "Sente.
Page 31 - ... the board, and hence it would be impossible to surround this group of white stones unless two stones were played at once. The white stones, therefore, can never be surrounded, and form an impregnable position. This is the principle of the two "Me...
Page viii - Chess are of a past age, in which the king himself entered the conflict - his fall generally meaning the loss of the battle — and...
Page 32 - Me" are on the edges or in the corners of the board, or how far from each other they may be. Plate 3, Diagram vi, shows a group of stones containing two vacant "Me
Page 18 - Go Ban" as it is called in Japanese, is a solid block of wood, about seventeen and a half inches long, sixteen inches broad, and generally about four or five inches thick.