"Commented Games by Yi Sedol Vol. 1" Available in English

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"Commented Games by Yi Sedol Vol. 1" Available in English

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The first volume of Yi Sedol's acclaimed 3-volume self-commented games collection is now available in English from Baduktopia. You can contact them for direct order in Korea @: info@baduktopia.com

Sample pages available upon request.
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hm, wonder where you got the info from.
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tchan001 wrote:hm, wonder where you got the info from.
http://tchan001.wordpress.com/2012/08/0 ... ther-news/


I saw it on facebook a little while ago. Before your blog anyway, so you don't need to hint at anything sinister.
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Unfortunately it's only volume 1 at the moment.
So I'm currently ordering the Chinese translated version which is complete (3 volumes) and available in hardcover :)
But I'll looking forward to the English version as well.
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I actually just got the first volume in english; it looks pretty interesting. It's three games commented in detail with some personal anecdotes thrown in.
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Did you get it directly from Baduktopia? I haven't gotten any reply from them after I emailed them.
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I got it from the AGA pro test; they gave a copy to all the entrants, one of whom gave it to me.
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"Currently Go Game Guru is the only store stocking this book in North America, the UK and Australia."

http://shop.gogameguru.com/commented-ga ... e-sedol-1/

42$ + shipping

Vol. 2 expected in 2013. Translated by Daniela Trinks -- graduate of Myongji University.
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The first volume is available in Europe and is stocked by Hebsacker Verlag in Germany. They are very efficient and post outside Germany. For information about the new series see:
http://www.usgo.org/news/2012/09/badukt ... dol-vol-1/
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Just bought all three volumes of the Chinese version - looks fantastic. The commentary is extensive and accessible for each game, and at roughly 100 pages per commentary, quite thorough as well :)
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Jedo wrote:I got it from the AGA pro test; they gave a copy to all the entrants, one of whom gave it to me.

oh man, I wish I had been at the AGA Pro test... oh wait, I was :scratch:
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just got my copy in the mail today (from gogameguru).

wasn't there a post in another thread somewhere about one of the games being used in the Hikaru series?
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I just bought this from gogameguru (good service, order online -> doorstep just under 3 days in the UK) and am liking it so far. Nicely formatted with not too many moves per diagram (similar to JF's Kamakura).
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I've been slowly working my way through this book and got to the end of game two today -- the page where the whole game is printed on one page -- they put the wrong game diagram on that page. They used the game diagram from the first game (with the ko moves from the second)

now I have to find the game record and print it out myself.
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