Ishi Press

Ishi Press was the world's leading supplier of go books and equipment in the 1990s, and published Go World magazine.

Ishi Press was founded in Japan in 1968 by Richard Bozulich. In 1986, it expanded to an office in Mountain View, California under James Connelley. After publishing some English translations of Japanese go books, the company began publishing original English works on go, including a popular seven-volume set for beginning and intermediate players, titled The Elementary Go Series. Many of these books were written by Bozulich or James Davies (Go author) in collaboration with Japanese professional go players. They introduced a generation of English speakers to the game of go.

In the 1990s, Ishi Press became embroiled in legal difficulties and became unable to pay its debts. Sam Sloan became president in 1994 and has attempted to restore the company's standing as a publisher and expand into publishing books on chess and chess variants.

Books

Ishi Press now has more than 220 books in print, including more than 80 chess books. Other Ishi Press books are about go and other board games, high-level mathematics including calculus, and US and Japanese history.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• International Go Federation
• List of professional Go tournaments