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Get Strong at Self-Atari

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Re: Get Strong at Self-Atari

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Um, to be pedantic for the Elementary Go series parody shouldn't that be:

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Yes, but it follows the tradition of other quality Ritchie Press titles.

For example: http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
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yup, I'm a bad person with a poor sense of priorities but when I first saw those other titles I thought wrong series too. I'm not sure if that's intentional (I don't understand it).
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I think it's part of the joke ;-). It's a rather shambolic operation, Ritchie Press, you're much better off buying from Kiseido.
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Re: Get Strong at Self-Atari

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Unfortunately the title of the book makes some of the problems it contains completely trivial.

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