Speed Baduk for Beginners 1, Sung-Rae Kim

183pg 7"x10" paperback published by Oromedia.  Beginner topics are briefly introduced, then drilled with ~20 problems per topic. Topics covered:

1. Liberties
2. Capturing
3. Escaping
4. Atari
5. Connecting
6. Blocking
7. Where to atari (towards 1st line, etc)
   
8. territory
9. suicide
10. life & death
11. shortage of liberties
12. snapback
13. net
14. ladder
15. capturing race
16. filling liberties
17. increasing liberties
18. live vs dead stones
19. ko
20. seki
    
21. good / bad shape
22. good / bad moves
23. neutral points
24. endgame

Comments & Reviews

I put up a full review at http://senseis.xmp.net/?SpeedBadukForBeginners If you’re teaching beginners, especially children, this book is without peer as far as I can tell. For self-study, as long as you’re young at heart enough to tolerate some of the cutesy diagrams, and dont mind trading a little less ‘value’ (in terms of number of topics) for very solid coverage of fundamentals, this is a good contender for a first book.

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