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Play over 1000 professional games to reach 1-dan, it is said. How about 6-dan? Games of Go on Disk is now offering over 6000 professional games on floppy disk, games that span the entire gamut of go history - and feature above all the players that have defined that history. All game collections come with DOS or Windows95 software to view the games, and most collections also include the now celebrated GoScorer in which you can guess the pros' moves as you play (with hints if necessary) and check your score. The star of the collection may well be "Go Seigen" - the lifetime games (over 800) of perhaps the century's greatest player, with more than 10 per cent commented. "Kitani" 1000 makes an ideal matching set - most of the lifetime games of his legendary rival, Kitani Minoru. Stars of the past feature in a monster collection covering Japanese go throughout the Edo period and up to modern times - 1250 games in "Sansa to Shusai". 300 games (out of just over 400 known) of Honinbo Shusaku form the "Shusaku" set. All the games in Invincible are there, but this disk includes corrected or extended versions of many of those games, using the latest discoveries. Modern masters are not neglected. Two of the West's favourites appear with sets of over 300 games each - "Yi Ch'ang-ho" (Lee Changho) of Korea and "Takemiya Masaki" of Japan. In both cases their earliest as well as their latest games are given. Recent sets have focused on "How the pros play the ...". So far there are sets covering the "Chinese Fuseki" Volume I (a second volume is already in preparation), and "Nirensei", Volumes I and II. A "Sanrensei" volume is also in preparation. All these disks typically contain 300 games. The latest addition to this series is a "specialty" item - so special GoGoD had to invent a new term for it. It is the "Sideways Chinese" fuseki, which incorporates the Mini-Chinese pattern. Very rarely seen in western publications yet played by most of the top pros, this opening is illustrated by over 130 games from Japan, China and Korea. Over half have brief comments. The next specialty item in preparation is a set of games featuring unusual fusekis - this will include rare New Fuseki games. The more serious student who wants to see "everything" is catered for, too. Between 200 and 400 games each are provided on disks covering all the tournaments for various years in Japan and Korea. All the above files are .GO or Ishi format files. GoGoD has also produced special collections in its own GMX format. Volume 1 offers the complete games of Huang Longshi, the"Chinese Dosaku", plus for comparison 50 games (about 40 per cent of those known) of Honinbo Dosaku. Volume 2 offers the complete games of Honinbo Shuho. GMX games are provided with a special viewing program that contains a huge number of proverbs that you can call up as you play - a unique and valuable study aid. Available on Disk in Ishi Format for Windows, DOS or Mac Go Siegen - $45 Lee Changho - $20 Sansa to Shusai - $35 Shuho - $20 Huang Longshi - $30 Chinese Fuseki - $20
Kido Yearbooks 80-84
- $39 ea.
Korean
Yearbooks 92,93 - $25 ea.
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