num_pages: 172
description: The most useful book for beginning players ever written. After introducing the basic principles of opening play the reader is shown practical sure-win strategies which he can use in his handicap games. A chapter is devoted to tesujis (tactical brilliancies) with 69 examples and 50 problems. The book ends with a chapter on the endgame.
language: English
title: Basic Techniques of Go
publisher: Kiseido Publishing Company