Beginner Go Series E2: Staying Connected/How to Practice

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Hello go players! The next episode in my beginner go series teaches you how to start thinking about getting serious about the game, and the quickest way to learn! It also teaches you about connectivity, one of the most important concepts in the game complete with a game review!

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[diamondmeeple]

Playing 9x9 is a nice way to start... the full board look daunting. "Lose the first 100 games as fast as you can, but try to learn at least ONE thing from each game", what a nice approach!

[bm]

There are so many different resources for getting better at chess, I'm sad with how hard it is to find quality content for beginning go players. Thanks for doing this! I love playing chess and I hope to learn go and get to a level I feel comfortable with.

[FinetalPies]

I finally understand how that AI became the best Go player, they lost their first 100 games at supercomputer speeds

[CosmicNana]

Kudos to your friend for his honesty and humility. I enjoyed this lesson and learned a lot!

[skaffenamtiskaw]

thank you for making all this content. I finally found a place on youtube that I can spend some relaxing, meaningful, productive time instead of getting lost down rabbit holes. Great, wholesome, enjoyable, informative stuff you got here. Way to go!

[cloudydays]

This series has been the best intro to Go I've ever found!!

[andrewimanuel]

Never win any match before, just watched this and instantly win one. Nice video!

[OysterPir]

I wish there were a whole bunch more of these beginner go videos. You are an excellent teacher and this format is really helpful. Thank you for making them.

[moss]

very comforting to know that it's fine to be frusterated and not know anything to start. good video

[eac-oxly]

Damn, what a superb video. Never thought about the strength I'd get from simply reviewing my games. I'll start doing this asap.

[norabellerose]

Finally, somebody who is actually making sense on explaining the game.

[nols]

This was so helpful, thank you very much! I just now realized that one of my major mistakes is that I only always see and think about territory right away from the beginning.

[teresaf]

Love this video! I learned a lot more from watching the actual game between 2 beginners, making the same mistakes I do and having your commentary explaining the better options.

[pigonckra]

Your gonna Go far, much love for the teachings of a beautiful game!

[JamesThompson-zubq]

I first started watching your videos a couple months ago and I wanted to come back to this video and say that your tip about reviewing your game every time you lose has been sooo helpful for me. Now when a game ends I'm always excited to go back and review to see what i did wrong and how I can improve. It's always just a great learning experience

[davidlean]

Although I have known of the game for years and have been intrigued by it, I literally only began my Go journey yesterday. I have no interest in Chess, but something about the visual element of go intrigues me. I also love that go is particularly Asian and reflects, some argue anyway, how Asian cultures think in general. Anyway, the first issue you bring up is the thing that has been killing me so far. I have only been playing the beginner bot on OGC, but 3/4 the way through every game, I can see how the cpus patterns have so many connections on the board, whereas mine are all disjointed. I did at least manage to keep some territory in my last game and score some points..baby steps! Slow and steady wins the race and all that!!

[abnewgemchoice]

I just started a day ago and I literally don't understand anything but thanks to you I'm having confidence

[codymichaelsouthgate]

Fantastic video, super helpful, great format; working through a 9x9 game with a beginner is very helpful for other beginners to learn from. We get to see familiar mistakes and gameplay style, while also gaining coaching from the process, well done, I will be watching more.

Blast from the past.

[tyomphia]

this is perfect. having a beginner like me to be taught and all my questions. wow