150 pages of comment on one game! A match between 2 teams Suzuki/Segoe against Kitani/Go Seigen. The game was played on 1 board, the players were allowed to discuss the moves, and even show on to board, with their teammates. The game was played in 1935.
This gives a unique insight of what professionals think about during their game.
From American Go E-Journal:
"The Go Consultants documents a unique event in go history, Kitani Minoru and Go Seigen’s 1934-35 consultation game against their teachers Suzuki Tamejiro and Segoe Kensaku. Authors John Fairbairn and T Mark Hall provide fly-on-the-wall observations of what each side was thinking at every stage of the contest, doing an excellent job of describing the characters and putting their status into context for 21st-century readers. In fact the story is related so naturally that The Go Consultants reads like a hard-to-put-down novel, complete with amusing anecdotes as well as keen commentary on the actual progress of the game. It’s like a show-within-a-show. On top of the pure entertainment value of the story, I found it insightful to learn how professional players approach serious games and a relief to discover that even professionals can be taken by surprise. I have always appreciated tightly-decided games more than landslides, because they tend to exemplify the ideal of ‘balanced play’, and without giving away the ending, this game was very closely fought indeed. Whether you’re a novice historian or an obsessive student of go, you won’t find a more thorough deconstruction of a professional game-in-progress. As a bonus, the book includes the players’ own post-mortem analyses."
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The book sizes are approximate. L = close to A4, about 26-28 cm high M = close to A5, about 19-22 cm high S = In-between A5 and A6, about 17-18 cm high XS = close to A6, about 14 cm high |
gobooks.nemir.org (May result in a error if book does not exist on that webpage)
You may also want to take a look at
Senseis Library and David Carlton's Go Bibliography
Amazon Search by ISBN (if nothing found you may want to search for e.g. the title instead)
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