Richard Bozulich

Richard Bozulich (born 1936) is an author and publisher of go books in English.

Richard Bozulich was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended UCLA and in 1966 graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in mathematics. Bozulich had worked his way through college by dealing in highly technical used books and upon graduation decided to become a book publisher. He moved to Japan and in 1968 founded The Ishi Press, a book and magazine publishing company that primarily published books about the game of go.

Ishi Press' first few publications were translations of Japanese books such as Eio Sakata's "The Middle Game of Go" and "Modern Joseki and Fuseki Vol. I and II" but Bozulich soon began working with Japanese professional players, as well as James Davies and John Power, his principal collaborators, to produce original works in English. The first of these, "Basic techniques of Go by Nagahara and Haruyama", was published in 1969. In 1973, Bozulich began work on a seven-volume set covering all the fundamentals of the game, The Elementary Go Series, with the publication of "In the Beginning" by Ishigure and "Life and Death" by Kosugi and Davies. By 1984, the set was complete, when Ishi Press published Nagahara and Bozulich's "Handicap Go." Meanwhile, Bozulich continued to translate and publish Japanese material for the nascent Western go-playing community, selecting volumes such as Kageyama's "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go" and "Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go", and a series of books about basic opening strategies: "The Power of the Star-Point" ((Takagawa), "The Chinese Opening: The Sure Win Strategy" (Kato) and "The 3-3 Point: Modern Opening Theory" (Cho).

In 1977, the Japan Go Association ceased publication of "Go Review", their English-language magazine. Working closely with Power, Bozulich has published a quarterly magazine ever since. "Go World" remains the only source in English for comprehensive analysis of top Japanese tournament games.

In 1982 Bozulich founded Kiseido Publishing Company, publishing Invincible: The Games of Shusaku, Power's biography and collection of the games of the most famous Japanese player from the 1800s. Kiseido became more active in the 1990s, when Bozulich produced two more multi-volume sets of instructional material: the five volume "Mastering the Basics", and the ten volume "Get Strong at Go" series. Kiseido continues to publish other books as well, such as "The Go Player's Almanac", "The World of Chinese Go" and "An Introduction to Modern Fuseki: Korean Style".

Richard Bozulich has written or published more than one hundred books and magazine and newspaper articles about the game of go. He is the world's most prolific author of go books in English.Fact|date=February 2007 Richard Bozulich is the publisher of Go World magazine. He had a regular [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0001/ go column] in The Daily Yomiuri, Japan's largest English-language newspaper. He lives in Chigasaki, Japan and is a professor of mathematics, physics and chemistry at a local college. His father was from Zadar county, Croatia. Richard Bozulich has five children.

Books

* Get Strong at Tesuji (Get Strong at Go Series) (2002) ISBN 4-906574-56-4
* Five hundred and one Opening Problems (2002) ISBN 4-906574-71-8
* Get Strong at Attacking (2002) ISBN 4-906574-60-2
* Get Strong at Invading (2000) ISBN 4-906574-55-6
* The Go Player's Almanac (2001) ISBN 4-87187-040-5
* The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) (1998) ISBN 4-906574-31-9
* Get Strong at Handicap Go (1998) ISBN 4-906574-59-9
* Get Strong at the Endgame (1997) ISBN 4-906574-57-2
* Get Strong at Life and Death (1997) ISBN 4-906574-58-0
* Get Strong at the Opening (1996) ISBN 4-906574-51-3
* Get Strong at Joseki, Volume 1 (1995) ISBN 4-906574-52-1
* Get Strong at Joseki, Volume 2 (1996) ISBN 4-906574-53-X
* Get Strong at Joseki, Volume 3 (1996) ISBN 4-906574-54-8
* Magic of Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game of Go (1988) ISBN 4-87187-041-3
* An Introduction to Go (1984) ISBN 4-87187-030-8
* Handicap Go (1982) ISBN 4-87187-016-2
* Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Vol. 1: Parallel Fuseki, Ishi Press 1968, reprinted 2006 ISBN 0-923891-75-7
* Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Vol. 2: The Opening Theory of Go, Ishi Press 1971, reprinted 2006 ISBN 0-923891-76-5
* The Middle Game of Go or "Chubansen", Ishi Press, 1971, ISBN 0-923891-77-3

External links

* [http://www.kiseido.com Kiseido Publishing Company]