The Middle Game of Go, by Sakata Eio. Ishi G5; 1971.

This book is a sequel to the Modern Joseki and Fuseki volumes. It covers the middle game of four of the games whose openings are discussed in those volumes; however, there is no need to have read the earlier volumes to appreciate this one. My comments for those books go for this one as well, mutatis mutandis.

I have a friend who improved a stone or two while reading this when he was around a 3 kyu. He clearly has more patience than I do, but obviously this book is good for some people.

I believe that this was reprinted by Dietmar Hartung, but I'm not sure. Ishi Press printed both hardcover and paperback editions of this book. It is currently out of print.

david carlton <carlton@bactrian.org>

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