Learn to Play Go, Vol. 3: The Dragon Style Paperback – January 1, 1998 by Janice Kim, Jeong Soo-hyun

Description

Author: Janice Kim

Brand: Good Move Press

Edition: 2nd

Package Dimensions: 10x235x404

Number Of Pages: 176

Release Date: 01-12-1998

Details: Product Description
The Dragon Style is the third volume in the popular Learn to Play Go series. Topics include seven deadly Go sins and eight secrets of winning play. Real games – even, high, and low handicap – are analyzed in depth. Includes a self-testing section and an extensive glossary of Go terminology.
Review
[Learn to Play Go is] by far the clearest English-language introduction yet published. –Games Magazine

A book of great beauty and wit. –The American Go Journal

A book of great beauty and wit. –The American Go Journal
About the Author
Janice Kim was born in Illinois in 1969. She became the first female student at the Korean Go Academy in 1983 and entered the professional dan ranks in Korea in 1987, the first Westerner ever to do so. She won the Fuji Womens’s Championship in 1984, took second place in the World Youth Championship in 1985, and third place in the EBS Cup in 1994. In 1998 she represented the US in the Bohae Cup. She was promoted to 3 dan in 2003. After graduating from New York University, Ms. Kim authored the five books of the Learn to Play Go series and founded the online Go company Samarkand. In 2008, in an effort to explore similarities in strategy games, she played in the World Poker Tour’s Women’s Championship in Las Vegas and placed fourth. She currently resides in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and two children.