Shi Xiangxia (1710 - 1771), titled guoshou and go saint, was one of the strongest players in the Qing dynasty. His masterpiece, Go Fundamentals, contains 6 games, 12 positions in 257 variations, and 3 poems of pithy formulas on go theory. The "Guiding Formulas for Important Positions" has been enriched with examples taken from all 5 games of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match between Lee Sedol 9 dan and AlphaGo, demonstrating how the profound principles of this great master can be applied even to this day.
The cover image shows a popular opening move considered to be a new invention. However, it was actually conceived and explored by Shi Xiangxia in this book over 200 years ago.
- Foreword
- Preface by Deng Yuanhui
- Preface by Shi Xiangxia
- Preface by Li Ningshi
- Guiding Formulas for Important Positions
- Overview of Four-Stone Games
- Attacking the Lone Stone (Total 5 Variations)
- Big Iron Net (Total 15 Variations)
- Small Iron Net (Total 6 Variations)
- Empty Corner (Total 30 Variations)
- Self-Constructed Two-Stone Games (Total 6 Games)
- Worriless Corner (Total 4 Variations)
- Overview of Corner Attack
- Corner Invasion (Total 11 Variations)
- Corner Seal (Total 8 Variations)
- Lower Invasion (Total 18 Variations)
- Cross-Cut Corner (Total 39 Variations)
- Upper Cross-Cut Corner (Total 36 Variations)
- Lower Cross-Cut Corner (Total 39 Variations)
- Great Cross-Cut Corner (Total 46 Variations)
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