By Nihon Ki-in (jap. Go-Verband), engl., 227 pages.
When a one digit Kyu player wants to become a Dan player he needs to master the basics of life and death. Nothing has more influence on the outcome of a game as the missed chance to either kill a group of your opponent or save your own group.
Almost without exception all professional players answer the question how to get stronger with a cross reference to increase the ability to read
by studying basic life and death problems from actual played games.
This book collects 300 problems for Kyu players with basic knowledge in the field of life and death, who wants to deepen there skills and increase there reading abilities. The books starts with problems on the level of 5 Kyu and ends on the level of 3 Dan, in which most problems are for the level around 1 Kyu. But also weaker one digit Kyu players and stronger Dan players can profit from this book.
