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Teach Yourself Go Charles Matthews

Teach Yourself Go By Charles Matthews

Teach Yourself Go by Charles Matthews


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Summary

"Go" is the Chinese board game that is comparable to chess. This book explains the rules of the game with step-by-step illustrations. The origins and the history and culture of the game are also covered.

Teach Yourself Go Summary

Teach Yourself Go by Charles Matthews

Go is the Chinese board game which is comparable to chess. Now that computers can play chess as well as the best players, the appeal of Go is higher - its players can retain the vanity that chess players have lost!

Teach Yourself Go explains the rules of Go and, through step-by-step illustrations, shows how to play the game. The book also covers the origins of the game and its history and culture.

About Charles Matthews

Charles Matthews read Mathematics at Cambridge, where he completed a Ph.D. in Number Theory in 1978 and reached a 3 dan level in Go. He was a lecturer at Harvard in 1981-2, and at Cambridge University as a Fellow of Queens' College 1982-8. He was a finalist in the British Go Championship

best-of-five match in 1997, and UK representative in the World Amateur Go Championship in Sendai in 2000. He is active as Secretary of the Cambridge University Go Society, the UK's largest Go club, and as an author on Go.

Table of Contents

Five lessons for the beginner; five further lessons; capture; cutting and connecting; eyes; a complete game; Ko and Seki; the end of the game; corners and slides; full board openings; the middlegame; the Go finishing school; a classic match; more about Go.

Additional information

GOR001929998
9780340871263
0340871261
Teach Yourself Go by Charles Matthews
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
2003-10-31
240
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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