Message-Id: <9306190536.AA29193@thor.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 01:36:55 -0400
From: smg6@po.CWRU.Edu (S. Max Golem)
To: smg6@thor.INS.CWRU.Edu
Subject: Contents of fuseki books.
Reply-To: smg6@po.CWRU.Edu (S. Max Golem)


Hi --

Big News!  David Mechner, rabbit 6-dan on IGS, has offered to do
an online discussion of some of our students' games on IGS.  I'll
send out the date and time when it's been decided.  Keep sending
in those games!

It's been brought to my attention that you could make a better
choice of the book(s) I start to translate if I provided the
tables of contents for them.  It's rather slow going, but here
they are for the _9-kyu Fuseki_ and _5-kyu Fuseki_ books.

_Fuseki For 9-Kyus_
Ch. 1 -- About Fuseki
    1.1  Preparation for war
    1.2  Corners -> Sides -> Center
    1.3  Playing big points
    1.4  Two warnings
Ch. 2 -- The Direction of Play from Corners
    2.1  Empty corners
    2.2  Kakaris and shimaris
    2.3  Important things about corners
Ch. 3 -- The Direction of Play for Sides
    3.1  From corner to side
    3.2  Basic extensions
    3.3  Direction of play of extensions
    3.4  Kinds of oba [big points]
    3.5  From sides to center
Ch. 4 -- Nine-Kyu Fuseki
    4.1  Fuseki for the fainthearted
    4.2  Reading and strength
    4.3  The essentials of fuseki
    4.4  Passive fuseki
 
_Fuseki For 5-Kyus_
Ch. 1 -- Point of View:  The Way to Look at Fuseki
    1.1  A chart of fusekis
    1.2  The concept of thickness
    1.3  What to look for in a moyo
    1.4  A comparison of oba [big points]
    1.5  Strategic points of fuseki
    1.6  [About authority: the highest priority]
    1.7  The focus of a moyo
    1.8  Conversion of a conception
Ch. 2 -- The Essentials of Actual Fighting Fusekis
    2.1  Attacking and moyos
    2.2  Fuseki without thinking
    2.3  The only point for invasion
    2.4  Zokusuji, zokusuji, zokusuji [pseudo-tesuji]
    2.5  The 3-3 invasion
    2.6  Jump toward the center
    2.7  How to play a moyo game
    2.8  Playing oba first
    2.9  Fuseki plans
    2.10 Devising a fuseki
    2.11 Thickness and fuseki
    2.12 Victory or defeat in the center
    2.13 The essentials of oba
Ch. 3 -- For a Sick Fuseki. . . .
    3.1  Ailments of josekis
    3.2  Ailments of oba
    3.3  Ailments of taking territory
    3.4  The ailment of fussing over trifles
    3.5  Symptoms of a collapse
    3.6  The ailment of kamikaze play
    3.7  A hot nervous disease
    3.8  Tempering [one's] jealousy

Both books are about 190 pages, which means that it will take a
couple of months per book to finish, probably more.  The fuseki
books have the most exposition and fewest diagrams, so they'll be
the hardest to work on, the slowest to progress with, and possi-
bly the most useful to you (since the Ishi Press has already pub-
lished comprehensive books on joseki and tesuji, and not much on
fuseki).

The 1-kyu fuseki book seems to be a rehashing of material in the
other two, and I don't think it would be worth the time to trans-
late it. 

Looking through the 9-, 5-, and 1-kyu tesuji books, I find that
the 9-kyu book is quite boring but there's a lot of good material
in the 5-kyu one.  These books are closer to collections of prob-
lems than the fuseki books are, so I'll try to start mailing out
representative examples from each. 

Looking through the joseki books, I don't see anything that the
translation of Ishida's joseki dictionary hasn't presented bet-
ter, so I don't see much use in doing any of them (though I _can_
be bribed 8-).

Well, that's about it this time around.  Keep in touch.

Bye,
Max.