Table of Contents of Shimada's "Mathematics of Go Game"

Table of Contents


   Part one.

Chap.l:   Primitive Form of Go

  1   1: How Go was introduced

  8   2: Igo and its primitive way of playing

 11   3: Difference between Igo and Go

 18   4: Proposition to formalize primitive Go rules.



Chap.2:   "Ko"

 21   1: Ko and drawn same

 23   2: Three Ko (Triple Ko)

 25   3: Four Ko

 28   4: Chosei

 31   5: Other strange forms and types



Chap. 3:   Geometry of Go Board

 34   1: Conditions of Go Board

 37   2: Straight lines and Go Board

 39   3: Flat Go Board

 40   4: Go Board of Sei Tamentai (Regular Polygon)

 42   5: Round Go Board

 47   6: Kojigen Go Board and Fukuzawa's a Proposition 
         (High Dimension)



Chap. 4:   Studies of Robinson

 52   1: Discussions and ideas of Americans on Go

 57   2: Their proposed Go Rules (Extract) and their 
         interpretation



Chap. 5:   Olmstead and Go

 74   1: Olmstead's Go Board

 79   2: His Go


   
Chap. 6:   Problem of formalizing Go Rules

 89   1: Origin of the problem and its development

 93   2: End of Go Game and characteristics of calculating.

 96   3: Alive stones and dead stones

101   4: Revised propositions that failed

105   5: Other problems

113   6: One idea (or angle)

121   7: Rules I propose




Part. 2

 
Chap. 7 :   Ideas on Go

133



Chap. 8 :   Effect or meaning of stones

141   1: Moves at the early stage

146   2: Good forms and poor forms

150   3: Order of moves

154   4: Handicap

157   5: Exchange and "Sente"



Chap. 9:   Size of territory and effect of moves

164   1: Figuring out balanced moves

167   2: Examples of above

173   3: Studies on effect of moves

178   4: Mistaken calculation

183   5: Reversed "Yose" and the end of Game



Chap. 10: "Semeai"

187   1: "Tsumego" of "Semeai"

192   2: Studies on Semeai

195   3: How to calucate liberties of "Nakade"

198   4: "Onaka" and Konaka"



Chap. 11:   Tengen and Manego

201   1: Go games with the first stone made at Tengen 
      -  Sentetsu Yasui and Tengen

206   2: Manego

   

Chap. 12: Effect of Okigo and Handicap

213   l: Value of "Sen" and Okigo

215   2: Handicap



221   Appendix:  Interpretation on Tsumego

226 [END]


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