Essential tsumego in the Japanese “Dictionary of Basic Life-and-Death”
In the foreword of the 基本死活事典 (“Dictionary of Basic Life-and-Death”) by Cho U, published by the Nihon Ki-in in 2014, it says: 死活が苦手な方は、問題を解くよりは、全部暗記するつもりで取り組まれてはどうでしょうか。 “If you are not good at life-and-death, rather than solving the problems, why not try to memorize everything?” So the tsumego in that book correspond to what In-seong calls “essential tsumego”; positions …