commissions will limit this book’s usefulness as a reference
work for advanced players, but they should be
welcomed by readers at the sub-shodan level, for whom
we are writing. There are no major gaps in our coverage of
joseki, and we hope that our explanations are
clear enough for even beginners to understand.
With the exception of chapter four, we have limited
ourselves to those joseki in which one player plays a
stone in the corner, and before he has a chance to
reinforce it with a second stone, his opponent moves
in after him. The first stone ordinarily goes on one