The Life of Honinbo Shuei

It reported on two books, presumably English translations, by Yasunari Kawabata as recently published by Vintage Books. The first, which should be of great interest to all Go players, is "The Master of Go.

Seidensticker and published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Seidensticker wrote in his introduction to the Knopf edition that "The Master of Go" is a chronicle-novel or as it is called in Japanese a shoosetsu. It is a piece of literature that, while it has been embroidered and colored, is still essentially a piece of non-fiction. The game started on 26 June and ended on 4 December It was played in fourteen sessions.

During this period the Go master spent about 3 months in hospital.

Kawabata at the time was a reporter for what is now The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and his book is based on the 64 installments he wrote for his paper. In earlier years there were four famous Go Schools, or families. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. The life of Honinbo Shuei.

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I note that Kiseido's Modern Master Games Volume One was originally issued as an e-book but is now available on paper. Fri May 18, 4: It may be noted that it's possible to read kindle purchased books on a PC, though I don't know if this is only for people who own a kindle already. Fri May 18, 5: Fri May 18, 6: This shift to a locked-in proprietary device is disappointing. I have bought several of John's books and I would buy more, but I don't have a Kindle and don't intend to buy one.

I already have an e-ink reader. There're industry-standard formats like epub that work on any device. The whole issue is ethically unpleasant - Amazon is trying to corner the digital publishing market by introducing its own locked-in format, and people like John are helping Amazon become a monopoly.

This is just plain not cool. Smartgo actually provides extra functionality that would not be possible on an e-ink reader and is difficult to make portable. Kindle stuff is just locked in for no good reason. First of all, I'd like to say welcome back JF, we miss your postings very much and hope to see you post more often hereafter. Second of all, excited to hear about your new book, but definitely would prefer a physical book rather than an ebook. Hope that we will have a chance to physically hold the book in our hands as with all your other books.

Fri May 18, 7: I would definitely buy these if an EPUB version were available. Shuei is probably my favorite classical era pro, and an English Xuanxuan Qijing would be wonderful.

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This is why everything must be calculated, in order to foresee victory and defeat. John Fairbairn is responsible, directly or indirectly, for over half of the information available to non Asian language speakers about Go. Glad to hear it -- I have always err, for the 3 years I've been playing go wanted to know more about Shuei and really enjoy John's other books. Leaving aside the worries about proprietary formats -- which are quite reasonable -- I am worried that Kindle is not a good choice for books 2 and 3.

But for books with lots of diagrams the Kindle doesn't seem to work very well. I have one Kindle go book, and the problem is that it's hard to control how the text appears relative to the diagrams. So I find myself flipping back and forth a lot trying to match the text to the diagram, and that becomes very irritating.

While e-book readers are great for some things like going on a long trip without a suitcase of books , in cases where precise control of the layout is important, they do seem to fall flat on their face.