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Author:  johanesek [ Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:30 am ]
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Hi, i'm looking for some good tsumego books for beginners - 20k - 15k. So far i have Graded go problems for beginners 1,2 but i want to add some pure tsumego. Books can be paper or pdf, just something what is doable offline. Any suggestions? Also, there was apparently a pdf file of http://senseis.xmp.net/?BeginnerExercises, can it still be found somewhere?
Thank You.
Author:  tchan001 [ Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Tsumego books for beginners
http://tsumego.tasuki.org/?page=tsumego
Author:  judicata [ Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Tsumego books for beginners
1001 Life & Death Problems (Kiseido).

Get Strong at Tesuji is one of my favorite problem books but, as the title suggests, it is focused on Tesuji, although there are some relating to life & death. The problems have a 1-3 "star" rating--1 star being the easiest difficulty, and probably good for someone around 12k.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:23 am ]
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Yi Ch'ang-ho's Selected Life-and-Death Problems series offer six volumes of 123 problems each, with raising difficulty of course. It's completely in chinese but I don't think this matters because you ought to solve the problem in the diagram not read the text around.

They can be purchased on www.mohsart.se (http://mohsart.se/en/36-bocker-pa-kinesiska?p=6).
Author:  tchan001 [ Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tsumego books for beginners
SoDesuNe wrote:
Yi Ch'ang-ho's Selected Life-and-Death Problems series offer six volumes of 123 problems each, with raising difficulty of course. It's completely in chinese but I don't think this matters because you ought to solve the problem in the diagram not read the text around.

They can be purchased on http://www.mohsart.se (http://mohsart.se/en/36-bocker-pa-kinesiska?p=6).

Why order Chinese go books from Sweden rather than from a Chinese site like dangdang?
I have a post on my blog about how people overseas can order books directly from China.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tsumego books for beginners
tchan001 wrote:
Why order Chinese go books from Sweden rather than from a Chinese site like dangdang?
I have a post on my blog about how people overseas can order books directly from China.


I got no problem with that, but I hardly recommend something I did not do myself ; )
Author:  Mivo [ Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Tsumego books for beginners
tchan001 wrote:
Why order Chinese go books from Sweden rather than from a Chinese site like dangdang?


To support European stores that offer Go equipment.
To get delivery within a few days.
To prevent any possible import issues.
To be assured that there aren't any language barriers with questions/problems.
To have an extra layer of safety if something goes wrong.
To be able to pay through PayPal.

Those would be my reasons. :) (Although I did get my agate stones directly from a Chinese supplier since the price difference was substantial.)
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