Speed Baduk for Beginners, vol. 1
Kim Sung-Rae
184 pages
7"x10" paperback
Published by Oromedia

Baduk is the Korean name for go. Korea is the country with the highest density of go players of the world. This is for a large part due to their high developed system of education. These are the books developed in Korea for teaching beginners.
The author Kim Sung-Rae has a masters degree in Education and is a professional go player as well. He is a lecturer at the Meong-yi university faculty of Baduk.
The books contain mainly problems. The answers are in a separate booklet. Together with the answers booklet, this is also an ideal tool for self study. Studying by solving many problems advancing in level slowly is widely considered the most efficient way of learning go.

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

In stock:
* Volume 1 (for absolute beginners)
* Volume 2
* Volume 3