By Lee Jae-Hwan, engl., 5+1 Volume, 168 Seiten per Volume.
The Concept for the "Jump Level Up!"-Serie has been developed at the "Department of Baduk Studies" of the Myongji University in Seoul, Korea, to help beginners and especially children to get started playing Baduk. Baduk is the korean name for Go.
The first part of this series is for absolute beginners (=30k) up to 20k.
The author Lee Jae-Hwan is the owner of a Go-School and looks back on 16 years of experience in teaching Go. In Korea his books are used on many private Go-schools, where the material of one chapter is designed for one lesson. Children from the age of five learn with the help of these books the Go rules playfully and in small steps.
The english version for grown-ups has been extended with texts about the cultural history of the game. The contents:
Volume 1: First Steps ...
Volume 2: Excercises to concentrate and behave over the board
Volume 3: Life & Death
Volume 4: Vital Points, Life & Death, Snapback, etc.
Volume 5: Improving your grasp on the game and calculation abilities
Volume R1: Consolidating the learned concepts
The solutions to the problems in the single volumes can be downloaded
here as a PDF.
Too
Part 2 of the Level Up!-Series ...