Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume One by Yoshinori Kano

Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume One by Yoshinori Kano

This is the first volume of a four-volume collection of problems and is intended for players who are learning the rules of go. The nearly1500 problems this set contains cover all phases of the game, from the opening to the endgame. It is assumed that the reader is studying a good and comprehensive beginner's book on go, such as Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game by Cho Chikun. For reference, however, we have included a brief summary of the rules.

Yoshinori Kano was born in Kyoto on April 14, 1928, and died on May 2, 1999. At the age of nine, he moved to Tokyo and became a disciple of Suzuki Hideko 5-dan. In 1943, he was promoted to 1-dan, and in 1968, he was promoted to 9-dan. He won the Young Professional's Championship in 1948, the Oteai's top section in 1955, and the 5th Prime Minister's Cup in 1961. He was a member of the Honinbo leagues 14th, 20th, 25th, and 26th.

He traveled to Austria and Russia in 1975, and then to China in 1979 with a squad of high school go players for a good will match. He graduated from Tokyo University's Japanese Literature Department, making him one of the few professional go players to have attended university.