Defensive Tesujis In a Nutshell

It was a great course and taught very well, I used the captions so I had no problems with dubbing either. I’m very happy to watch this way and hope this guy teaches more courses in the future! However, I got quite disheartened getting 20% or 30% on the quizzes. It was just brutal, I learned a lot and cried along the way. Great course, lovely presenter, but definitely 5-1kyu/3 difficulty not 2 🙂

good content but a bit short and more difficult than it seemed

This lesson has some very good Tesuji. Unfortunately, a dubbing that is not well synchronized is very distracting. I know dubbing is hard, so maybe it is better to make faceless lessons when using dubbing. And even if there are a small face intro and conclusion, it would require less work to get the dubbing right.

Wow, almost a little too advanced for me as 12k, but probably just the right stuff to get me to the next level

I learned a lot from the tesujis

I do agree with David. Some informations are a bit difficult to grasp, but the lesson is very useful and it might be good to warn the beginners that it will need some thinking.

For me the dubbing was hard to understand and the level of the course was to high for my skillset.

thanks for the course

This short course is worth exploring, but beginners may find some of the information challenging to understand.

This was very hard course for me. I had to go over the whole course a couple of times to solve the quizzes. But I really enjoyed it. I think that it stretched my approach to Go in a very good way. And I will probably repeat the course again.

Hard and very interesting course to get stronger

Amazing quality, clear explanations and many non-obvious yet super fascinating tesujis. Very well done, bravo!

A very hard course, which is to be expected with Tesuji. I do wish there was a lower level Tesuji course to get warmed up on before this so I recommend people buy a book on the subject as a compliment to this course.

The course brings some important principles and demonstrates them well, but is clearly insufficient to instill in course takes the intuition needed to solve some of the more subtle tesuji problems it then requires. It is clearly a higher rank course, but I feel that some familiarity with certain shapes can be supported by the course before asking for a complex tesuji using it.

This course opened my eyes to see more tesujis and sacrifices. Harder than the other courses under the Competent heading but worth the effort.

This course really brought the idea of Tesuji alive. The need to use sub titles, whilst initially making the course more challenging, also forced me to stop and start it a lot, enabling me to understand the concept (a bit more) before rushing ahead. It also introduced a number of 'tricks' and ideas which make good sense when seeing them played out in the way described.

Valuable course, wish there was a little more contents. Quiz was little hard tho

It is a valuable course, but quite hard to find the solutions in the final quiz. I do not have the idea that I have grasped the way to handle those problems. I am around 8/7 kyu and think it is difficult, but I will do the example some more times and hope I can remember and use them in my own games.

Sure, sacrificing two stones rather than one is useful leverage but this course assumes way too much background knowledge. This should be the second course with the first that describes and teaches the tesuji necessary to solve the quiz problems. The quiz is NOT the right time to ‘discover’ a tesuji: tired of getting ‘you suck, try again’ messages.

Very interesting new ways to think about possible plays, very well explained. But way too hard for level 2/3. I cannot read and imagine such long sequences in advance without knowing the solution beforehand. The quizzes are much too difficult. English subtitles do not help, because I need to focus on the board. This way I need to watch it twice.