How to judge a book

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Re: How to judge a book

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One invades immediately so that Black does not get any chance to add stones in the center with which a later 3-3 invasion could be killed on a large scale unconditionally by means of non-standard moves.
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Re: How to judge a book

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jts wrote:Not to derail the discussion - but can anyone who has bought part of the Fujisawa Tesuji dictionary tell me, are its tesuji primarily of the "this is awesome" variety or the positional judgment variety?

If you are looking for awesome, you're probably looking for the Tesuji Dictionary by Go Seigen and Segoe Kensaku
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Re: How to judge a book

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tchan001 wrote:
jts wrote:Not to derail the discussion - but can anyone who has bought part of the Fujisawa Tesuji dictionary tell me, are its tesuji primarily of the "this is awesome" variety or the positional judgment variety?

If you are looking for awesome, you're probably looking for the Tesuji Dictionary by Go Seigen and Segoe Kensaku

Hmm, thank you for the recommendation. I think I'm going to try to hit up the material available in English first, though.
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