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100 Tips for Amateur Players II
"...In my opinion the attraction of baduk is in 'Attack and Invasion'. This kind of thinking is from the fact that my baduk style is aggressive. Most amateurs tend to love attacking. Fighting makes them excited. Yet if he lacks the ability to find a vital point in battle, he can never beat his opponent..."
-Preface
-Preface
222 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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May 29, 2013
Stilted english translation but some nice tips. Answers some questions I have had about joseki I've seen.
It is undeniable that one characteristic of human beings is: they fight.
When I chose three books to take along on the airplane last week, it seemed a remarkable coincidence when I noticed that they all dealt with the subject of fighting.
It was probably inevitable that this would eventually happen, given how fighting is a main activity of humans.
The books are: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Shambhala by Chogyam Trungpa, and 100 Tips for Amateur Players Vol II by Youngsun Yoon.
Fight Club is a novel and Shambhala is a collection of related essays. Both are concerned with fearlessness and being a warrior. One could characterize Fight Club as 'black hat' and Shambhala as 'white hat'.
100 Tips is a book of tactics for practitioners of the game of go [aka baduk]. Players know that this game is all about fighting. Insofar as positioning stones on a piece of wood can be considered fighting. A better word might be struggle.
Fighting among humans has evolved from the immediate -- viz fists -- to the abstract such as jobs, classes, games and efforts such as 'the fight against cancer'.
I award three stars to each of these books. But I award four stars to the experience of reading them all at the same time, and finding unsuspected relationships.
It is undeniable that one characteristic of human beings is: they fight.
When I chose three books to take along on the airplane last week, it seemed a remarkable coincidence when I noticed that they all dealt with the subject of fighting.
It was probably inevitable that this would eventually happen, given how fighting is a main activity of humans.
The books are: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Shambhala by Chogyam Trungpa, and 100 Tips for Amateur Players Vol II by Youngsun Yoon.
Fight Club is a novel and Shambhala is a collection of related essays. Both are concerned with fearlessness and being a warrior. One could characterize Fight Club as 'black hat' and Shambhala as 'white hat'.
100 Tips is a book of tactics for practitioners of the game of go [aka baduk]. Players know that this game is all about fighting. Insofar as positioning stones on a piece of wood can be considered fighting. A better word might be struggle.
Fighting among humans has evolved from the immediate -- viz fists -- to the abstract such as jobs, classes, games and efforts such as 'the fight against cancer'.
I award three stars to each of these books. But I award four stars to the experience of reading them all at the same time, and finding unsuspected relationships.
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