PSG Magazine #1
After year of hard work of Polish Go Association brand new Baduk Magazine was published with 1 thousand copies. First edition of magazine cover all major tournaments in Poland + some interesting articles with beautiful photos. Overall impression is very high but I found some technical mistakes, but first I’ll discuss what is inside in 1st edition of PSG Magazine.
There are 32 pages. Main topic of this edition is World Mind Sports Games 2008. On first pages you would find organizer and captain of Polish team at WMSG’08. A lot of nice photos and few kifu of author games. Next important article is dedicated tournament of Korea Prime Minister Cup. This time author (Leszek Sołdan 5d) add nice commentary to kifu of his game against Wei Zhao 7d from China. Other tournaments (Polish Champinship League, Polish Youth Champions League, Polish Female Championship + interview with winner) are covered in smaller but decent articles.
For me the most interesting was articles written by Jurek Tomiak about mental approach to the game. He show that two most popular approach aren’t the best (aggressive and passive approach to problem) and the best solution is not to fight with stress but play with it. Great article!!!
There are also two games with deep commentary, but in whole magazine I found that reading diagrams without board is impossible :( In commentary authors are using coordinates but diagrams don’t have them. Another minus is that ko moves and captured stones aren’t described at all. Also one Diagram for whole game is too much for me. I used to read a lot books with max 50 moves per diagram so I had hard time reading this games.
Overall magazine is great. I hope in next release all bugs will be fixed and number 2 will be even greater.
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Mam takie same odczucia co do Biuletynu, wyslalem do Leszka&co uwagi dotyczace diagramow i pewnej niedbalosci w ich przygotowaniu. Poza tym biuletyn jest naprawde fajny