Are the books from the Korean Problem Academy collection available anywhere? I know they are on the tsumego-hero site, but are they available as physical books or pdfs? The ISBN listed on sensei’s library doesn’t lead to anything useful and apparently pdfs don’t seem to exist. I know every strong player has their own favorite collection of exercises, favorite books, teaching methods, …, but this one always seems to be highly praised, sometimes accompanied by anecdotical stories like “Someone just studied this, did every tsumego twice and reached 5k in four months”. Tsumego-hero is just fine, but I enjoy paper, hence my question. Thanks.
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I have searched the ISBN in Korean sites. While the books’ title I found is a little different from the title on the ISBN system, but the publisher matches; They probably are Life and Death Series Vol 1 - 4 (사활 시리즈 1-4). I have studied with these books when I was very young.
They are not available on typical online book stores but can be bought from the publisher’s website. But I assume they do not support shipping to other countries.
You may find it here (Vol1)
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Considering how popular (and at least recommended) these books look to be, it would be great if any reseller could manage some import.
Any resellers around?
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