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Author:  tekesta [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:28 pm ]
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Anyone know whether these Chinese books are theory books or problem books? I have been thinking of purchasing these to better learn weiqi fundamentals.

http://www.clickgou.com/Product/23415392395/Ladder_Weiqi_books_and_specialized_training_of_basic_training_book_11_present_a_genuine_Zhang_Jie_spot/

Below is an image of one of the books on the above webpage. I believe this to be the volume on endgame.

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Author:  tchan001 [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:40 pm ]
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They are problem books.
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:25 am ]
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tekesta wrote:
to better learn weiqi fundamentals.


What do you expect to find in fundamentals? Which books on the topic have you already read? Which is your rank?

If your theory is weak, you need theory books. If your reading is weak, you need problem books. If both are weak, you need both.
Author:  cdybeijing [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:19 am ]
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They are problem books and I like them very much, although I have only used the tesuji volumes.
Author:  bofinken [ Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:27 am ]
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Are they enjoyable even if your Chinese reading ability is more or less null?
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:42 am ]
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I can't comment on this specific book but I have the Yi Ch'ang-Ho series in Chinese and as long as you know the Hanzi for Black (黑), White (白) and correct/solution (正) you are good to go -as far as problem books are concerned.
Author:  Bill Spight [ Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:44 am ]
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SoDesuNe wrote:
I can't comment on this specific book but I have the Yi Ch'ang-Ho series in Chinese and as long as you know the Hanzi for Black (黑), White (白) and correct/solution (正) you are good to go -as far as problem books are concerned.


And you can actually do without 正 . ;)
Author:  tchan001 [ Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:32 am ]
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I can recommend the tesuji and life & death parts of the series where the problems are mostly if not all Black to move. But I'd stay away from the endgame book if you don't understand Chinese because it'll often ask you to calculate the value of the endgame plays as well so this would test your Chinese knowledge or lack thereof considerably more.
Author:  oren [ Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:01 am ]
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tchan001 wrote:
I can recommend the tesuji and life & death parts of the series where the problems are mostly if not all Black to move. But I'd stay away from the endgame book if you don't understand Chinese because it'll often ask you to calculate the value of the endgame plays as well so this would test your Chinese knowledge or lack thereof considerably more.


Are you talking about the YCH series or the series from the top of this thread?
Author:  tchan001 [ Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:23 am ]
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The series of this thread topic
Author:  bofinken [ Sat Sep 21, 2013 5:21 am ]
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Wonderful, now I've sent away an amount of money but my order's status is unpaid. Intesresting site though. If one could buy from them it would be even better :)
Author:  bofinken [ Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:04 am ]
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... It worked finally. I have now received these books and like cdybeijing I think that the books are good. Around 800 problem/ book. 11 books in the series. 5 tesuji, 5 tsumego and one yose.
The tsumgo and tesuji books are from 10 kyu - 3 dan.
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