This book is a nice 8×8, 160 page book. It’s attractive, with lots of white space and a simple declarative paragraph to introduce each concept. It has excellent exercises and is more traditional in their setup–a diagram creates a situation and a sentence asks you for a solution. At first, it’s a single stone placement that you’re imagining, but soon your solution assumes a few moves for each player.
This book is the one I’d hand to other people today to introduce the game. Despite that, ?I prefer The Rules and Elements of Go for a reminder–this is probably better for learning the game for the first time, and hopefully less intimidating with the problems and modern layout.