In order to cram more tsumego-solving into my schedule, I'd like to have some on hand all the time for whenever I have a free minute. Any good pocket-sized tsumego books out there for purchase in the US?

_________________
KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

If you have a smartphone, that's probably your best option. I'm not sure what to recommend, as far as books go.

_________________
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].

You might try Maeda Nobuaki's "Life and Death: Intermediate Level Problems". It's a pocket sized yellow book that only costs $8 at Slate and Shell

http://www.slateandshell.com/SSGR005.html

I haven't looked at my copy in a while, but I went through it a few times and liked it.

In another thread ethanb suggested this L&D tsumego book and he said that it helped him to advance from 4k to 1d in four months. It is said to contain tsumego for strength between 7k and 2d.

None of the go apps for Android seem to have a very worthwhile problem mode. Hugoban has a problem mode that seems to half-way work, but the problems aren't sorted by difficulty or anything, which makes it mostly useless.

That book looks pretty good, and the price is right. I'll add it to my wishlist.

_________________
KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

That book is 100% awesome for quick study, and perfect for SDK level. Glad somebody else mentioned it first, I mentioned it in another thread recently and I'd be afraid of sounding like an advertisement.

1. Download collection of your choice. http://tsumego.tasuki.org/?page=tsumego
2. Print on paper.
3. Fold to pocket size.

Edit: the point is to bring as many problems as you can comfortably fit in your pocket, that would be even more portable than a book and you can toss them away when you have solved them or they become unreadable from the wear, you can always print them again.

_________________
FusekiLibrary, an opening library.
SGF converter tools: Wbaduk NGF to SGF | 440 go problems | Fuseki made easy | Tesuji made easy | Elementary training & Dan level testing | Dan Tutor Shortcut To Dan

Yeah, this is something I want to add to gobandroid. Hopefully I can get to this in the next couple weeks. Would you test it out?

The idea is to just want to have lots of problems always at my fingertips no matter where I am. Back when I was improving quickly, I was consuming tons of problems on a daily basis, but lately I've had so little time to set aside for study, let alone playing, that I've hardly been doing any. But if I have them available at all times then I can squeeze a couple in whenever I've got a free moment.

I've kind done the same with playing. I don't often have a good hour of uninterrupted time to play a serious game (or not often enough), so I've started playing on DGS from my phone so I can squeeze in a move whenever I have a moment.

@oren: Oh, you're the gobandroid developer? Yes, I would love to be a beta tester. I am a programmer (though not much Java), so I should be good at breaking it.

_________________
KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

These were excellent to carry in my pocket and whip out when I was bored in class: http://senseis.xmp.net/?NihonKiInDanLevel

Kiseido repackaged these pocket-sized books into the "Graded Go Problems for Dan Players" series but I'm not sure if those are pocket-sized like the original. Even though they say they're dan level only, I found the 5d L&D book incredibly easy and think it is more like KGS 1d level. I think you would be fine with getting the 1d L&D book and/or the 1d tesuji one.

The Kiseido reprints are normal-Kiseido-book sized (like the Get Strong At books).

I got the first L&D and tesuji books in the Kiseido series and they at least start out doable for me.

these are nice pocket sized

http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/show ... stcount=84

I have the first one shown in his series (numbered 4) http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/show ... stcount=64

I bought mine at Kinokuniya in Seattle

and I also have ひと目でわかるポケット詰碁200 (this one is my favorite and is even better pocket sized, but may be below your level already). Also bought from Kinokuniya.


I also have some Chinese and Korean ones too (not really pocket sized though). I find that the Asian problem collections are much better than the Western published collections. They seem to be sorted by skill level much better too. And they skip the really, really lower level problems of "find the stone in atari".

Cool, now I just gotta find a place that sells these books. At least it's good to know that such things are out there.

_________________
KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

I have a couple of the books xed_over pictures and they are exactly what you are looking for.

There are 6 volumes of Go Problems for Kyu Players: http://www.slateandshell.com/SSWC001.html

Hey, they really look neat! Anyone knows how much are the shipping costs to Europe?

_________________
My "guide" to become stronger in Go

If you mean 'Go Problems for Kyu Players' from slate and shell, then you need to ask them. The shipping will not be the same to all of Europe. Their shipping is very reasonable though.

I am currently carrying this around anywhere I go, because it's a perfect fit to my jacket pocket. It's awesome to be able to flip it out anywhere, anytime and read 5 minutes or so. The size can be compared to a postcard, it even seems a bit smaller and the problems are great.

Does anyone know whether the Life & Death by the Numbers/Characters books are of the same format? Do they present 1 problem only per page as well?

Those two books are about the same size as the Maeda life and death book that Slate and Shell also carries - slightly taller, but much thinner. Pocket size (unless you have small pockets) and 1 Problem per page.

As xed_over's note points at an old godiscussions page, it may be helpful to have a link here to tchan's updated version on his blog:
http://tchan001.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/seibido-shuppan-pocket-size-go-problem-books/