Learn to Play Go Volume 4: Battle Strategies - Paperback
by Janice Kim (Author)
Volume IV of the award-winning Learn to Play Go series. Covers essential principles of fighting in the middle game, including invasion and reduction, attack and defense, life and death, capturing races, and ko fighting. Includes test yourself section and index.
Janice Kim was born in Illinois in 1969. She became the first female student at the Korean Go Academy and entered the professional dan ranks in Korea in 1987, the first Westerner ever to do so. She won the Fuji Women's Championship in 1984, took second place in the World Youth Championship in 1985, and third place in the EBS Cup in 1994. In 1998 she represented the US in the Bohae Cup. She was promoted to 3 dan in 2003. After graduating from New York University, Ms. Kim authored the five books of the Learn to Play Go series and founded the online Go company Samarkand. In 2008, in an effort to explore similarities in strategy games, she played in the World Poker Tour's Women's Championship in Las Vegas and placed fourth. She currently resides in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and two children.
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