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All About Life and Death

A Basic Dictionary of Life and Death

Volume Two

by Cho Chikun, Honinbo

Translated by Bruce Olson

The Ishi Press

Tokyo, San Jose, London

Published by

The Ishi Press, Inc.

CPO Box 2126

this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic

or electronic process, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system,

transmitted or otherwise copied for public or private use

without the written permission of the publisher.

Originally published in Japanese by the Nihon Ki-in as:

Kihon Shikatsu Jiten

In North America order from:

ISHI PRESS INTERNATIONAL

76 Bonaventura Drive

San Jose, CA 95134 Tel.: 408-944-9900

In Europe order from:

ISHI PRESS INTERNATIONAL, LTD. 20 Bruges Place

London NWl 0TE

Tel.: 71-284-4898

First printing June 1993

Printed in U.S.A.

Contents

Volume One

Preface

Index

Explanatory Notes for Using this Book

Glossary

xvi

Part One

Life and Death on the Second Line

Part Two

Six-Spare Eye Shapes in the Corner

Part Three

Eight-Space Eye Groups in the Corner 79

Part Four

The Comb Patterns

125

Volume Two

Part Five

The Carpenter's Square

171

Part Six

Second Line Shapes on the Side

211

Part Seven

Third Line Shapes on the Side

241

Part Eight

Fourth Line Shapes on the Side

273

Part Nine: Practical Applications

The Star Point and the 3-3 point

297

Part Ten: Practical Applications

Various Ways of Invading

321

Preface

These two volumes are a collection, in dictionary format, of

shapes from the basic to the practical, in which the issue is the life or

death of the groups involved. While it is presented in a problem for-

mat, you shouldn't feel compelled to use it like you would a book on

tsume-go (life-and-death problems), wrestling with every problem

from beginning to end. On the contrary, this book is better suited to

slapping lightly from place to place as the mood strikes you or as

your needs require. For example, both leafing through the book,

stopping to carefully study only those shapes which interest you, or

going directly to the solution diagram without working through the

problem, are excellent ways to use this book In fact, my fondest

wish would be for you to keep the book on your bedside table and

fall asleep while looking over a page or two. The objective of this

book is to have you gradually yet painlessly acquire an appreciation

for a basic approach to the problem of life and death in go.

In anything, the fundamentals are important; if you neglect the

them your performance will surely suffer. For example, the very first

pattern in this text utilizes the three-space nakade (large eye inside a

group) shape. Since all life and death problems in go boil down to a

question of one eye or two, this shape must be considered the most

basic. If you are able to learn to think about problems of your own

as a question of 'How can I reduce this to the three-in-a-row shape?

and then compare this to the time when you didn't think about a

problem in that way you'll be able to see that you've made signi-

ficant progress.

September, 1984

Cho Chikun

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