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Title: A Compendium of Trick Plays by Kageyama Toshiro, Ishida Yoshio, Robert J. Terry ISBN: 0-9641847-1-0 Publisher: Yutopian Enterprises Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50

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Summary: An impish manual about trick plays and joseki
Comment: When one thinks of the buyer of a book on "trick-plays", one conjures up the image of a player willing to use any devious means they can find to eke out an undeserved win. This is not the target audience of this book, nor is this, for the most part, the kind of instruction it seeks to provide. The majority of this book is an in-depth examination of almost-joseki; "these first moves are a common sequence, but then white plays X; how should black respond?" is the question repeated throughout the book. Since a thorough understanding of joseki includes knowing why not to deviate from it, and what to do when your opponent does, this book is as much a guide to understanding joseki than anything else.

Though amazon lists the book as having been written by Ishida Yoshio, the book is in fact comprised of four chapters written by four different authors. Fittingly, much of the book has an impish air to it; one can almost feel the smirk of one of the authors as he describes the imaginary dialogue between Dogaku Sensei ("Honinbo of the Alleyways") and Joe Patzer, a parody of just the kind of player one imagines would buy a book about trick plays. The book even includes a comical eight page cartoon, translated into English. Beneath it all, however, this is fundamentally a work book with the same reward as the rest: "if the reader masters the subject matter of this book, an incremental increase in strength can be expected" (Preface).