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5 <title>All artwork by SEHO KIM.</title>
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12 <p><strong>My New Primer GO FOR KIDS</strong>
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14 <p><strong>© 2002, 2009 Milton N. Bradley</strong>
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15
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16 <p><img src="Cover.gif" align="left" >Providing what I deeply believe is the answer to the centuries
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17 old and heretofore unsuccessful quest for an ideal mechanism
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18 for learning Go, especially by children, I'm pleased to
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19 announce the publication by <a href="http://www.yutopian.com/go"><strong>Yutopian</strong></a> <a href="http://www.yutopian.com/go"></a> of my new primer GO
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20 FOR KIDS (ISBN 1-889554-74-X) as of Monday, Sept 17, 2001.
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21
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22 <p>There are a number of Go primers already in print, so it is
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23 logical to ask why yet another is needed and what mine
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24 provides that is different and better. The answer lies in both the
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25 special audience for which GO FOR KIDS is designed and its
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26 novel presentation.
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28 <p>As a Chessmaster and member of the world famous Marshall
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29 Chess Club in New York I first learned to play Go 52 years
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30 ago (!), and have been teaching beginners and thinking deeply about their perceptual and learning
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31 problems ever since. The hard won insights gleaned over these five decades were both
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32 augmented and refined during the course of the 8 years of my recently concluded after school Go
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33 program in the South Huntington School District, during which I taught Go to over 700 children,
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34 primarily in the third through fifth grades. In the resulting epiphany, I became acutely aware of
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35 both the children's characteristic and unique perceptual/learning problems, as well as the serious
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36 deficiencies in addressing them inherent in all the existing "conventional" Go primers.
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37
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38 <p>Since the rudiments of Go are invariant, the core material presented in any primer must
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39 necessarily be pretty much the same. But finding a way to make that presentation both attractive
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40 to and comprehensible by children is the critically important problem that I believe that GO
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41 FOR KIDS uniquely solves! Perhaps equally important, while most of the extant Go primers
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42 more or less satisfactorily address the essential issues of the "what" and "how"of Go, I believe
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43 that only GO FOR KIDS also satisfactorily explains the almost equally important "why"!
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44
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45 <p>The attractiveness and clarity of presentation of GO FOR KIDS derives from its unique use of
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46 427 cartoon strip panels of question-and-answer dialogues between instructor and students,
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47 which augment its 340 conventional Go diagrams and their accompanying explanatory text.
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48
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49 <p>GO FOR KIDS is written for children of about age 12 (sixth grade) and up, because the nature
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50 and inherent complexity of Go concepts require at least that level of reading skill, vocabulary and
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51 reasoning ability. But it can also be used quite satisfactorily by even much younger children with
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52 some assistance from older siblings or parents.
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54 <p><strong>IMPORTANT!</strong> Although GO FOR KIDS is uniquely child-friendly, it is nevertheless a
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55 complete, incisive and insightful presentation of the rudiments of Go suitable for the intelligent
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56 adult. It does use cartoon panels to convey many of its most important insights, but this is no
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57 more "childish" than is the conveying of their pithy social commentary via the same cartoon
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58 mechanism by such well known and widely respected "comic strips" as Peanuts, Dilbert, and
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59 Doonesbury. The result of its unique approach is that GO FOR KIDS succeeds where most Go
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60 primers fail in making this greatest of all strategic board games accessible to the "average"
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61 person, while still providing the depth of content desired by the most apt and/or technically
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62 sophisticated beginner.
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63
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64 <p>To provide some idea of the efficacy of its unique presentation, the entire INTRODUCTION to
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65 GO FOR KIDS is reproduced below. The only change from the book is that here these panels are
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66 in their original full color, while the first edition of the book was printed in black & white to
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67 minimize costs and resultant selling price!
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69 <p><img src="Intro1.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro2.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro3.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro4.gif" align="middle" >
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70 <img src="Intro5.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro6.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro7.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro8.gif" align="middle" >
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71 <img src="Intro9.gif" align="middle" >
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73 <br wp="br1"><br wp="br2"><h2 align="center"><strong>All artwork by SEHO KIM</strong>.</h2>
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75 <p>To find out more about this talented young artist and/or to utilize his services, visit <a href="http://www.kimseho.com/">Seho Kim's
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76 web page.</a> Because of all of the artwork contained therein the page load slowly, but it's worth the
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77 wait!!!! Enjoy!
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78
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79 <p>Throughout the book "comic strip" dialogue panels like these provide a much needed context for
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80 the material being presented (almost entirely missing in other Go primers) while answering the
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81 children's most frequently asked questions. The result is that deep rather than superficial
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82 comprehension and learning can take place. They also provide a familiar and pleasurable
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83 child-friendly format as well as "built in" breaks from the more formal tutorial material, and this
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84 makes GO FOR KIDS far easier and more pleasurable for children to read than the conventional
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85 text-and-diagram-only approach used by all prior Go primers.
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86
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87 <p>I am acutely aware that no presentation can possibly completely satisfy the perceived needs and
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88 preferences of all potential users, but it is my honest belief that GO FOR KIDS goes far further
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89 in this regard than anything extant, and most of those who have seen it agree. But ultimately the
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90 only judgment that counts is yours, and the only way that you can make that judgment
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91 objectively and accurately is to read GO FOR KIDS yourself. It's available directly from<a href="http://www.yutopian.com/go"><strong>
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92 Yutopian</strong></a> , Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or your local bookseller. After you've read it, I'm
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93 confident that you will want each of your children, students, friends and relatives to obtain a
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94 copy of their own as well!
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95
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96 <p>Finally, it's important to reiterate that although GO FOR KIDS was created specifically for the
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97 juvenile reader it's a complete, coherent presentation of the essential rudiments of Go that will
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98 not insult the intelligence of an adult. So if you or anyone you know has heretofore been unable
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99 to develop interest in the world's premiere strategic board game or has had difficulty learning it,
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100 GO FOR KIDS might just provide the long sought breakthrough!
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102 <P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Click Here To RETURN To <A HREF="MBGoHist.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">My Personal Go History</STRONG></FONT></A></P>
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104 <P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Click Here To Go To <A HREF="NewProverbsSample.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">NEW GO PROVERBS ILLUSTRATED</STRONG></FONT></A></P>
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106 <P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Click Here To Go To <A HREF="ImproveFastIndex.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">Improve Fast In Go </STRONG></FONT></A></P>
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107 <p ALIGN="CENTER"><strong>Click Here To Go To <a href="LearnChessFastSample.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">Learn Chess Fast </strong></font></a></p>
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110 <p>Click Here To Return To<a href="index.html"><strong><FONT COLOR="#0033ff"> Milt's Go Page</strong></a></font></p>
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