Izumi Hase

The Elephant in the Paddy Izumi Hase

How do you catch an elephant? Can a question mark live? What is the relation between Go and music? And have you ever played Go in a paddy field? In this book you will experience Go problems from a very different angle. The creative and amusing pictures composed of black and white stones involve amazing life-and-death exercises. Their degree of difficulty reaches from very easy to highly advanced - for beginners and Dan-players, for children and adults. This book is dedicated to all those friends of Go who are bored by dry exercises and endless reading. Get inspired by tsumego!