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The Thirty-six Stratagems Applied to Go

200 Seiten, kartoniert, Yutopian, 1996

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Ranked as the best player in the world in 1995, Ma Xiaochun has had a phenomenal career since turning professional just ten years ago. This book represents his first attempt at a major work of Go literature. It differs from the "usual" Go book in that it examines the application of ancient military maxims to the game. Through careful analysis of 36 complex middlegame positions, taken from actual professional games, Ma shows how to formulate a plan and translate the plan into action on the board.
At every turn, Ma demonstrates his phenomenal full-board vision Through each diagram, he develops the reader's appreciation of the relationship between local tactics and fullboard strategy. He shows how to formulate tactics based on strategy, as well as how to reap the ultimate reward by dogged pursuit of strategy in the face of tactical losses. His choice of a military classic as the basis of his lessons is unprecedented in Go literature. We have all mused about the relationship between Go and warfare, and some authors have written books describing warfare as an extension of Go. But here we have a work that directly interprets military principles into maxims for Go.
Ranked as the best player in the world in 1995, Ma Xiaochun has had a phenomenal career since turning professional just ten years ago. This book represents his first attempt at a major work of Go literature. It differs from the "usual" Go book in that it examines the application of ancient military maxims to the game. Through careful analysis of 36 complex middlegame positions, taken from actual professional games, Ma shows how to formulate a plan and translate the plan into action on the board.
At every turn, Ma demonstrates his phenomenal full-board vision Through each diagram, he develops the reader's appreciation of the relationship between local tactics and fullboard strategy. He shows how to formulate tactics based on strategy, as well as how to reap the ultimate reward by dogged pursuit of strategy in the face of tactical losses. His choice of a military classic as the basis of his lessons is unprecedented in Go literature. We have all mused about the relationship between Go and warfare, and some authors have written books describing warfare as an extension of Go. But here we have a work that directly interprets military principles into maxims for Go.
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EAN 096418477X
Gewicht 288 g
Hersteller Yutopian
Breite 10,1 cm
Höhe 15,9 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
Autor Ma Xiaochun
Sprache Englisch
ISBN-10 096418477X
Seiten 200
Einband kartoniert
vi Translator's Preface
viii Author's Foreword

The First Set: Stratagems When Winning
001 The First Stratagem: Crossing the Sea by Treachery
006 The Second Stratagem: Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao
010 The Third Stratagem: Murder With a Borrowed Knife
016 The Fourth Stratagem: Let the Enemy Make the First Move
022 The Fifth Stratagem: Loot a Burning House
026 The Sixth Stratagem: Feint to the East, Attack to the West

The Second Set: Stratagems for Confronting the Enemy
037 The Seventh Stratagem: Make Something Out of Nothing 31 The Eighth Stratagem: Secretly Cross at Chencang
041 The Ninth Stratagem: Watch the Fire from the Opposite Shore
047 The Tenth Stratagem: Hide a Dagger with a Smile
056 The Eleventh Stratagem: Lead Away a Goat in Passing
056 The Twelfth Stratagem: Sacrifice Plums for Peaches

The Third Set: Stratagems For Attack
061 The Thirteenth Stratagem: Beat the Grass to Startle the Snake
065 The Fourteenth Stratagem: Reincarnation
070 The Fifteenth Stratagem: Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountains
075 The Sixteenth Stratagem: Allow the Enemy Some Latitude So You Can Finish Him Off Later
080 The Seventeenth Stratagem: Throw Out a Brick to Attract Jade
085 The Eighteenth Stratagem: To Catch Bandits, Capture Their Leader

The Fourth Set: Stratagems for Chaotic Situations
091 The Nineteenth Stratagem: Pull the Firewood From Under the Cauldron
098 The Twentieth Stratagem: Fishing in Troubled Waters
104 The Twenty-first Stratagem: The Cicada Sheds Its Skin
109 The Twenty-second Stratagem: Close the Door to Capture the Thief
114 The Twenty-third Stratagem: Make Friends With Distant Countries and Attack Your Neighbor
119 The Twenty-fourth Stratagem: Borrow a Road to Send an Expedition Against Quo

The Fifth Set: Stratagems for Gaining Ground
125 The Twenty-fifth Stratagem: Replace the Beams and Pillars with Rotten Timber
131 The Twenty-sixth Stratagem: Point at the Mulberry to Curse the Locust Tree
140 The Twenty-seventh Stratagem: Play the Fool
140 The Twenty-eighth Stratagem: Remove the Ladder After the Enemy Goes Upstairs
145 The Twenty-ninth Stratagem: Put Fake Blossoms on the Tree
150 The Thirtieth Stratagem: The Guest Plays the Host

The Sixth Set: Stratagems When Losing
155 The Thirty-first Stratagem: The Beauty Trap
161 The Thirty-second Stratagem: The Empty Fort Ploy
166 The Thirty-third Stratagem: Counter-Espionage
171 The Thirty-fourth Stratagem: The Self-injury Ploy
176 The Thirty-fifth Stratagem: Interlocking Stratagems
182 The Thirty-sixth Stratagem: Sometimes Retreat Is the Best Option

189 Glossary
195 Index
199 About the Author
I was surprised and delighted by Sid Yuan's invitation in July to translate Ma Xiaochun's first book into English. I quickly read through the first few chapters before deciding to take on the project. I discovered a fresh, original approach to Go analysis.
At every turn, Ma demonstrates his phenomenal full-board vision. Through each diagram, he develops the reader's appreciation of the relationship between local tactics and full-board strategy. He shows how to formulate tactics based on strategy, as well as how to reap the ultimate reward by dogged pursuit of strategy in the face of tactical losses.
His choice of a military classic as the basis of his lessons is unprecedented in Go literature. We have all mused about the relationship between Go and warfare, and some authors have written books describing warfare as an extension of Go. But here we have a work that directly interprets military principles into maxims for Go.
There is no record of who the author of the original work, Sanshiliu Ji (The Thirty-six Stratagems), might have been, nor even an accurate estimate of when it was written. But in the Book of the Southern Qi (ca. 500 AD), there is a passage, "Of the Thirty-six Stratagems, retreat is the best option." So by that time, the work was already well known, if not a major classic. Today it has the stature of a classic among military works in China. In 1981, a "new edition" of the classic, Sanshiliu Ji Xin Plan, written by Li Bingyan, was published by the People's Liberation Army Press. This New Edition made the classic more accessible by providing simplified interpretations of its contents. Li's aim in writing the New Edition was to reinterpret the classic in terms of modern warfare and Marxist ideology. It has become "required reading" in China, where every able-bodied person is in the militia. It was during the study of this New Edition that Ma hit upon the idea of using it as a framework for the present book.
Sanshiliu Ji is divided into six sets of six stratagems each, thus making a total of 36 stratagems. This form parallels the style of the Tao-ist classic The Book of Changes (Yi Jing). But unlike the Yi Jing, the 36 stratagems are all from the dark side (yin) of warfare, with no counter-balancing yang. Each of the 36 stratagems is named using a widely-known idiom (set phrase - most Chinese set phrases consist of four characters) so each is easy to understand and easy to remember. All of them belong to the class of treacherous plots of the ancient military strategists. Li said in his forward to the New Edition, "So we could say it is a collection of the military strategists' 'Gui Dao' (Treach-erous Way - a play on the classics of Taoism), a book exclusively discussing military scheming and plotting." A true bag of dirty tricks.
In translating this work I have tried my best to faithfully reproduce the dry wit Ma used throughout. I hope each of you who read this book will get as much enjoyment from the profound analysis and quiet humor as I have. In reading it, you will have a glimpse directly into the personality of the best player in the world, hearing his analysis in his own words. My only embellishments to the original work were to correct such diagramming and referencing errors in the original that I caught during my work. All of the analysis is Ma's own. However, should you find some error in this book, please bring it to our attention in the event we should publish a corrected edition at some later date.
I have also adopted the use of many commonly-used Japanese Go terms in the translation because they are widely used by Go players of every nationality to express concepts that are otherwise difficult to describe in any language. For those unfamiliar with these terms, I have prepared a short glossary, included in this book as an appendix. Each term in the glossary is crossreferenced to its first appearance in the text so that readers can see a direct illustration of the term in context.
I am most grateful to Sid Yuan for this opportunity to translate one of the best books on Go I have ever read. Special thanks to James Dee, Michael Goerss, Jeff Shaevel, and C. C. Yuan for their thorough proofreading of the manuscript. Their many suggestions greatly improved the quality of the final product. And I also owe a big debt to my family for putting up with my many nights and weekends of neglect while completing this work. Their support and encouragement went a long way in seeing the project through to the end.

Roy Schmidt, Hong Kong 1996, Preface