The Game of Go by Arthur Smith is not a good choice for getting someone started in the game. The examples are of poor quality and confusing. Like the book by Lasker this is primarily of historic interest - it was written many years ago before good introductory books were available. Better to start with Go for Beginners by Iwamoto or the introductory series by Janice Kim. Also the beginning book by Cho Chikun. For teaching young children look at Milton Bradley's book (the go player, not the game company).

Compared to the introductory books on Go written by professional players such as Janice Kim, Kaoru Iwamoto and Cho Chikun (and my apologies to anyone I left out), this book falls short in every important way. Somewhere inside it is everything a first book on Go should have, but the presentation is tedious and windy.

A century ago, this book and those like it were the only resources available to Westerners learning Go. Today, there are far better books on the market. Buy some of them.

There are some very good insightful books about Go. This is not one of them. It was written in a time when there were really no good Western Go players. This book muddles the game and loses sight of the key elements. Look for other, better books on the subject.

Poorly typed and photocopied, with fuzzy illustrations. Even a home produced book ought to look better than this. There are only 34 pages of actual text. I think that I will learn something from it, but it is way overpriced.

This book is really more of a booklet made up of old photocopied, type written pages. The pages are not even clear, with little black dots over the pages giving the appearance of something that has been photocopied quite often. It really looked like something someone threw together in their basement. There is some information there, but not what I was looking for. I think this item would be better suited to old "Singer" machine owners who do not have an owners manual since what information there is in this booklet seems more geared to the Singer owner.

I wanted a more comprehensive, fix it or do it yourself type of manual on mechanical sewing machines that addressed cleaning etc. Although there are alot of diagrams in the booklet, its not information I haven't already seen on the internet. The book is just not worth the money. I've never returned a book before because I really am a book lover but I just couldn't justify keeping this one. Hope this helps someone out there & Good luck!