Bruce Wilcox’s Go Dojo : Sector Fights
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Sector Fights are
battles over containment, be it of a potential territory or a
weak group. Sector Fights happen throughout the opening and
midgame and their results are crucial.
This 1900 page Dojo
installment is primarily about strategy. It supplies tactics
as needed (which is often), but that is not its goal. Sector
Fights includes: a thorough training in sector lines, attack
and defense of groups, attack and defense of potential
territory, and the partial and whole board strategies
involving interrelations among sectors, including the Great
Wall Opening. There are many thoroughly commented games. It
is about the length of 7 Go books and helps make sense out of
the contents of many of the books already out there by
providing you with a proper theoretic context.
The Dojo is a
computerized interactive tutorial targeting four groups of
students:
Squirm
with the Abysmals (to 20 kyu) as you realize fundamentals
you’ve never grasped
Commit with the Acolytes (to 10
kyu) to acquire the rules of good play
Study with the
Ascendents (to 1 dan) to hone the skills you need to
progress
Marvel with the Adepts (to professional) at the
advanced thinking of master strategists
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This
screenshot is of the version suitable for smaller monitors with
the text window shrunk.
The board size
is adjustable. Fonts and font sizing are completely customizable.
Each level covers how to
see the board and what rules to follow. There are interactive
tests to confirm you understand the rules and a printable crib
sheet to glance at as you take ‘live action testing’of
your understanding in whole board games. You play along with the
original players - guessing the correct move for your level of
understanding and seeing where the original players got it right
or so very wrong. Should you get it wrong, Dojo reminds you which
rule you’re breaking and lets you try again until you get
it right.
Also included is Kogo's
Joseki Dictionary (http://waterfire.us/joseki.html) for studying
joseki.
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Wilcox’s
Go Dojo: Sector Fights (Windows/WINE only) is available o via
email
To order use PayPal
(www.paypal.com and click SEND MONEY of $35 or £30, or 35
Euros, to email: gowilcox@gmail.com)
Quotes from users:
"You did an excellent job with
Sector fights. Even the light-saber sound effects add to the teaching
of sector lines. " JA
"Not many (if any) go books/programs
manage to combine readability with useful information as you have
done here. Pleasure to read and I feel that I am learning something
at the same time. Excellent work. " DC
"I get the impression that many Go
books nowadays are like many cookery books: they are not really
intended to instruct... This is not Wilcox's aim at all. He wants to
convey concepts, ensure that they are correctly grasped, and show how
to apply them. He does this patiently, with plenty of examples and
tests. " NW (1-dan)
"I found Contact fights really
useful and wondered whether Sector Fights would be as useful.
Actually, to my surprise I found Sector Fights is probably even
better than Contact Fights. " a KGS 7k