The Net | Basic Go Techniques: Lesson 2

In Go you sometimes need to capture stones and that creates constant anxiety that the stones might still escape. Fear not! Once you learn the technique from this lesson, you will be able to capture stones once and for all with zero chance of escape.

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00:00:00 What if a ladder doesn't work?
00:01:00 Net
00:01:51 Example 2
00:02:35 Example 3
00:04:01 Net or ladder: which one is better?

[samzheng]

the production value of this channel is very good. can't wait for the next lesson!

[nfnjenen]

Even though the numbers aren’t very great, you are still continue “go content”.
I admire your passion

[dr.s.p.]

Everything always feels a lot clearer after your excellent explanations and step by step analysis. I guess learning such previously replayed moves is a definite ‘must’ if we, as beginners, want to learn more. Your presentations are more easily processed by my beginner’s brain than some of the Go problem books I have, because I can literally see everything working rather than attempting to visualise from a book for first time problem solving. I believe your course material will come in handy as I set forth on my Go journey, even at my ripe age of 74. Thirty years ago, when I first attempted to learn Go, there was no such learning base as your courses, so my learning slowly grew to a grinding halt through lack of that capacity to visualise everything and no teachers available. This time around it makes much more sense. Thank you.

[alvarocastroregueiro]

I really liked this Geta move. I think it’s quite important to stop when you make a question and try to think. If you get it right like me for example, it’s so satisfactory jajaja. About the name, referring to the sandals, maybe it’s the part that goes between the big toe and the other ones, which kind of divide the structure, into two. Some toes go this way, some the other way. Same with the stones

[kobloskrisztian]

Good to see this area at 4:39. These kind of visualisations helps a lot.

[newsupermichal]

That moment when you showed all the possible ladder-breakers was cool!

[Ryansomebody]

Really incredible explanations and production value. Thank you!

[SoloMonke]

thanks for all that you do for the game of Go! I feel like I am improving slowly

[latostadorano]

I'm very thankful of all your content :)

[Ishant-ic]

Continue making videos . Go time will come. Someone need to rebrand go in a way that masses feel interested. Go has more potential than chess now

[eliaspetrov]

I can't stop watching your lessons)

[chrisrasnake]

This channel is amazing. Your teaching style and the production is well done.

[Zurround]

I was playing go with a friend years ago and I made up my own term "ladder breaker breaker" where if we have a potential ladder but there is a breaker for it far away on the board I might put a stone of my own BETWEEN the potential start of the ladder and the ladder breaker stone, which was a term that my opponent laughed about and said it was like an old movie about trucks. I think there was a movie filmed in the early 1970s called BREAKER BREAKER.

When I played the ladder breaker, breaker (is there a better go term than that?) it BOTH gave me the ability to guarantee the death of the ladder stone several spaces away on the diagonal AND it was a territorial attack on the area of the board that I had placed it in.

[萬騫]

In Chinese it's called 'Cangue' (枷 Jia), which makes sense.

[Zurround]

When I was a teenager, decades ago I got to go to a special event where a professional football team and a professional baseball team played basketball against each other. It was fun to watch and they still played it better than regular people could have, but not as well as pro basketball players could, since it was not their specialty.

Its fun to see athletes of 2 different sports compete at something neither of them specialize in.

I once got to meet Janice Kim, author of a series of books about go. I never met them but Judith Polgar is one of the best female chess players. Those 2 people playing OTHELLO or some other strategy game that is not chess or go or too similar with each other would be interesting.

[sethhumc]

I'm only like 21k but I noticed on 9x9 when capturing race is a common theme, net can sometimes be too slow than the immediate atari threats like ladder (or just capturing race in general). On 13x13 there's more space to worry about and net not only solves this issue, but is also a good shape and casts more influence. That would be my take on when to use ladder vs net

[killerbealife]

In 2:25 if white goes up what do you do

[Zurround]

I posted on another one of these threads that GONNECT is in my opinion a better game than regular go due to having a very concretely defined and specific win condition.

[SoloMonke]

when it comes to Net vs ladder, wouldn't a ladder be better? this way you can build the board in your favour before capturing the opposing stones, and after you capture them, you get points and more of your own stones on the field

or am I completely wrong?

[VenkatV-pj]

Hi Vadim, hope you are well. I am planning to start learning the game. Never played it before. My reason for starting the game is to improve my decision making skills. I have a really bad decision making ability. My mind is getting frozen and simply lost when presented with multiple things or a chaotic scenario in life. I end up putting myself in very bad situations where I end up spending more or missing a job offer and things like that.

So to overcome this shortcoming, I am planning to start this game. Would you think the game Go will help me overcome this problem in my life?