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Re: Go / Igo / Baduk / Wei Qi
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2009, 12:35:03 PM »

Completed the tutorial, what should I start with next? I tried the life and death problems but I was really bad at it. Whats my next move ^^?
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Re: Go / Igo / Baduk / Wei Qi
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2009, 12:55:39 PM »

I wrote this for a friend and will edit it into my main post.

Eye Shape: http://senseis.xmp.net/?EyeShape

Memorize by heart, and apply them in...

Tsumego: http://senseis.xmp.net/?LifeAndDeath

The best way to get good at tsumego is to do as many problems as you can, and repeat the ones you can't solve instantaneously until you can look at them and know the solution.

You can find 300 problems to get started here: http://senseis.xmp.net/?BeginnerExercises. They have a PDF of the problems and solutions if you want to print them out. The answers on the site provide in-depth analysis, while the PDF solutions just show the correct answer.

Shape: http://senseis.xmp.net/?Shape

This is good to know in general play to avoid tragic moves. In all that void between the big moves and tsumego, it helps to know what (not) to do.

Joseki: http://senseis.xmp.net/?Joseki

Read that and then go to http://eidogo.com/. Memorize the sequences and try to apply them in your games. I'm trying to do this, and it is
not really that fun, but neither is not improving, heh. Try to memorize all the variations that stem from Move 1: 3, Move 2: f, as those are the easiest to get under your belt and apply.

You might notice patterns/similarities among the variations of the joseki end results, which I think is helpful in memorizing them. Playing proper opening moves will help stack the cards in your favor later on in a game. Even if you don't understand why you're doing what you're doing until after you've memorized them, used them, and reached higher levels, you wouldn't get to those higher levels otherwise.

Here are the go resources that I keep coming back to:
http://senseis.xmp.net/?StartingPoints - more specifically, the Pages for Beginners link on that page. The commentators often trail off on a lot of exceptions, which are useful, but don't let it distract you from the main points.
http://gobase.org - I haven't actually looked at this, but I hear they have some good problems?
http://goproblems.org - searchable database of all kinds of go problems. I don't really care for the interface, but maybe you can find a way to make it work for you.

Finally...

http://gokgs.com - You can play games online there. Read this (http://senseis.xmp.net/?WelcomeToKGS) and this (http://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSTips) before you play.

There's a saying in go, lose your first 100 games as quickly as you can.

If you are on facebook, you can lose to me there.
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Re: Go / Igo / Baduk / Wei Qi
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2009, 01:30:37 PM »

Awesome!! Thanks a lot! I think I'll just start reading and working on some problems first before I lose to you on facebook.
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Re: Go / Igo / Baduk / Wei Qi
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2009, 01:45:10 PM »

Whenever you want a game (ie, right before you get tired of reading about go), just message me on AIM and we can be facebook friends/start a game.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2009, 01:45:56 PM by Dad »
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Re: Go / Igo / Baduk / Wei Qi
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2009, 04:04:51 PM »

I've been playing Go since I was 16....
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Re: Go / Igo / Baduk / Wei Qi
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2009, 07:58:37 AM »

I've been playing Go since I was 16....

You're probably way better than me then. I just started last year. We should play sometime.
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