Learn to Play Go
by Janice Kim · first published 1995
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2009–2015first – last mentioned
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…https://parahumans.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/ -- but it falls short of overall greatness and I don't think it's worth its 22-average-books length if I were to go back in time and decide on rereading... Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I) - Janice Kim -- I've been learning Go and thought this book was particularly excellent for beginners. There are at least 4 other books I'm close to finishing…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗Check out Sensei's Library Go wiki, Nick Sibicky on YouTube, and Janice Kim's "Learn to Play Go" series of books, IMO. Also, the "Hikaro no Go" anime series is absolutely wonderful, and that takes Hikaro from a young and completely new to Go kid through to being a professional, with short instructional…
on “Show HN: Play Go Against a Deep Neural Network” ↗…for Beginners (http://www.amazon.com/Graded-Problems-Beginners-Beginner-Ele...) has four volumes of increasingly difficult tactical problems. For the strategic side of things, I enjoyed Janice Kim's Learn To Play Go series, which has five or more volumes (http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Go-Masters-Ultimate/dp/1453...) And, of course, with Go you have a nice progression from learning to play on the 9x9 board for…
on “How to Get Good at Chess, Fast” ↗As another beginner (still <50 19x19 games, so take with salt) I really appreciated the style and content in Janice Kim's Learn to Play Go series' first book. (Partway through the second.) Sensei's Library online is often a good intro to some things too. For manual scoring, the important thing I think is to have a mostly completed board,…
on “Show HN: Play Go Against a Deep Neural Network” ↗The "learn to play go" series of five books by Janice Kim is the best.
on “Ask HN: Who Plays Go?” ↗…I entered college thinking I was fairly good. I got completely, embarrassingly, destroyed in my first game. And the next two. After that, I read a book on it, probably the same one the author read (Learn to Play Go by Janice Kim) and didn't really follow at all. Still getting destroyed. Then I did what the author didn't do: I played at least twenty games of Go a day. I played a Windows program called Igowin, I…
on “High Anxiety (raganwald on Go and learning new things)” ↗