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Nie Weiping on Go

The Art of Positional Judgement

197 Seiten, kartoniert, Yutopian, 1. Auflage 1995

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Written by the strongest and most famous player in China, this work is also the first Chinese go book ever translated into English. In the biographical section, Nie's arduous struggle to become one of the finest players in the world is recounted, as well as his hardships during the Cultural Revolution and the stirring account of his challenge of the Japanese domination of the go scene.
This book is divided into eight chapters: The Opening, Positional Judgment, Timeliness of Initiating Battles, Finesse and Trade-off Decisions, Forcing Moves, Utilizing Thickness, Defending Weak Stones, and Applications in fully Annotated Games.
All of these themes are woven together by Nie and given a masterful interpretation that will help every go player in analyzing the demands of a position.
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EAN 0964184729
Hersteller Yutopian
Breite 10,2 cm
Höhe 15,8 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
Autor Nie Weiping
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 1
ISBN-10 0964184729
Seiten 197
Einband kartoniert
007 Preface
009 Introduction

039 Chapter One-The Opening [Fuseki]
039 1 - The Chinese Opening
045 2 - Countering the Chinese Opening
051 3 - Effectiveness of Stones
056 4 - Taking the Initiative

062 Chapter Two-Positional Judgment
063 1 - Analyzing the Full Board Position
071 2 - Initiating a Fight
079 3 - An Example of a Well-Planned Strategy
079 Based on Positional Judgment
088 4 - Avoid Greed Regarding Small Local Profits / Stabilizing Groups

095 Chapter Three-Timeliness in Initiating Battles
096 1 -Initiating an Attack When One is Behind
101 2-Basing Attacking Plans on Careful Positional Judgment

106 Chapter Four-Finesse and Trade-off Decisions
106 1 - Sacrificing Stones to Take the Initiative and Forcing an Attack
113 2 - An Example of a Large Scale Attack Initiated by Sacrificing Stones

119 Chapter Five-Forcing Moves
120 1 - Two-Pronged Attacks
126 2 - Taking the Initiative and Consistency in Attacking

131 Chapter Six-Utilizing Thickness
131 1 -Developing Thickness
138 2-Avoiding Weaknesses [Aji]

143 Chapter Seven - Defense of Weak Stones [Shinogi]
143 1 - Counterattacks
153 2 - Avoid Greed

158 Chapter Eight -Applications Shown in Fully Annotated Games
158 I Versus: Hashimoto Utaro 9 dan
158 1 - Mutual Disruption
160 2 - Weighing Pluses and Minuses
162 3 - Inevitable Developments
163 4 - An Alert and Exquisite Move
163 5 - A Slack Move
165 6 - A Stubborn Invasion
167 7 - Initiating a Battle
169 8 - A Ko Fight
171 9 - Competing in the Endgame
173 10 - Defending Weak Stones
176 II Versus: Kajiwara Takeo 9 dan
176 1 - The Shusaku Opening
177 2 - Unconventional Moves
179 3 - Sacrifice Strategy
181 4 - A Strong Attack
182 5 - Taking Outward Influence
184 6 - Correct Responses
185 7 - Slack Moves On Both Sides
186 8 - Weighing Pluses and Minuses
187 9 - The Key to Victory
188 10 - Two-Pronged Attack



China is famous for the ancient arts of its culture, and weiqi is one of the most important examples. Collectively, weiqi, music, calligraphy and painting are known as the Four Ancient Arts of China. Weiqi is a game of strategy, science, and art. It is a fascinating game which has captured the interest of the Chinese for thousands of years. As early as the Chunqiu Dynasty, the art of weiqi was very popular already. That was followed by the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasties, and the Nanbei Dynasty. The popularity of weiqi bloomed explosively during the Tang Dynasty. After that, from the Sung to the Ming and Qing Dynasty, there was a marked improvement in skill at weiqi. Unfortunately, beginning around the time of the "Opium War" in 1840, China became a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. The national culture of the country was completely destroyed, and the weiqi skills of China dropped to their lowest level.
After the communist takeover of China in 1949, this ancient art was reborn due to a tremendous effort by the government in promoting weiqi. Yet in the 1950's the level of skill of our weiqi was far behind that of the Japanese. Most of our players couldn't beat the Japanese 9 dans, even with a two stone handicap. This was inconsistent with our reputation as the inventors of weiqi. There is a saying, "If a country prospers, the weiqi movement should also prosper as well." Vice Prime Minister Chen Yi obtained permission from Chair-man Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai to assume the responsibility to help our country surpass the weiqi level of the Japanese in ten years. From that time on, the Chinese weiqi scene has produced new talent continually.
I started to learn weiqi when I was nine, and was lucky to be influenced by Vice Prime Minister Chen Yi. He inspired me with the unshakable conviction that "the Chinese should surpass the Japanese in weiqi skill." Therefore, I was determined to achieve this goal. Under the guidance and training of the older players, I painstakingly studied and analyzed weiqi skills. There were quite a few setbacks, especially during the "Cultural Revolution". Weiqi was identified as one of the "Old Four". Although I was puzzled and scared, my determination to study weiqi could not be altered. Regardless of the turmoil in the country and the hard work required on collective farms; I would always find time to study weiqi. I analyzed the games of the high dan Japanese players and the famous Chinese players alike, in order to improve my level of playing. I hoped that I would manage to beat the Japanese 9 dans one day. After prolonged efforts, I finally defeated a few 9 dans starting in 1974. In recent years, I have played against more than 20 Japanese 9 dans and learned quite a bit from the experience. At the same time, my own weaknesses have come to light. In order to further improve my skill, I would like to summarize my experiences in studying weiqi. Here, I have grouped the topics of discus-sion into seven major categories. They are the Opening [Fuseki], Positional Judgment, Timeliness in Initiating Battles, Forcing Moves, Utilizing Thickness Finesse and Trade-off Decisions, and Defending Weak Stones. In the context of my games with Japanese 9 dan players, I will analyze and discuss these topics in detail. The discussion here is quite elementary. Any feedback from the reader will be deeply appreciated.

Nie Weiping September 1980, preface