- Fundamentals are the building blocks for making decision. I think this is often confused with marketing talk such as "essential tsumego". Fundamental of life and death, as explained in the book is to firstly expand the eyespace of the group. Many players do this naturally and result of having live groups on the board attest to its fundamentality. Conversely a group can only die when it's surrounded and this is the proper way to kill groups.

Kageyama teaches what playing Go is about in a basic level. The diagrams are there to illustrate what is being said. Going into specific attacking techniques and such is beyond the scope of the book.