Nie Weiping on Go The Art of Positional Judgment By Nie Weiping 9 danPublished by Yutopian Enterprises 2255 29th Street Santa Monica, CA 90405 1-800-Y UTOGO-3 yutopian@netcom.com © Copyright 1995 in the U.S.A. by Yutopian Enterprises All rights reserved according to international law. This book or any parts thereof may not be reproduced in any printed form, nor stored in any electronic retrieval system, nor recorded in any other medium without the written permission from the publishers, except for short excerpts as a part of a written review. Translated by Dr. Sidney W.K. Yuan. Originally published in Chinese by the Shanghai Cultural Publishing Company under the title of Nie Weiping's Talks on Weigi. Translator's notes are given within[ ] brackets. Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. John 7:2:4 NIV First printing May 1995Table of Contents Prehace sees iiccc cies ctosteasssietsscetestessssemstuasctuascessssevascens 7 Introduction... cece esesessesesescsesesesesssescscaesseeeee 9 Chapter One — The Opening [FuseKil............-sc00039 1 —The Chinese Opening..........cssssssessecsessessesssssseeseeseees 39 2—Countering the Chinese Opening. 45 3 —Effectiveness of Stone: 51 4—Taking the Initiative.... 56 Chapter Two — Positional Judgment............s.cssssse02, 1 —Analyzing the Full Board Position. 63 2 —Initiating a Fight...... 71 3 —An Example of a Well-Planned Strategy Based on Positional Judgment... 79 4 — Avoid Greed Regarding Small Local Profits / Stabilizing GroupS........c.ssssssssseeseessessessseeseeeseeesee 88 Chapter Three — Timeliness in Initiating Battles.......95 1 —Initiating an Attack When One is Behind..............00.96 2 —Basing Attacking Plans on Careful Positional Judgment... cceccessssesesseseesesesesesneseseeeeneneanees 101