Defensive Tesujis In a Nutshell
This course will teach you a few basic general principles of making an efficient shape. Alexey prepared three short lessons with interesting examples to demonstrate the value of protective moves and keeping all the stones nicely connected.
A small set of useful examples on some simple tesujis will allow you to learn a couple of valuable tricks to master the art of making a solid shape.
This is an experimental mini-course made in the form of a screencast. We’ve added a bit of magic to it and we hope you like it. Enjoy!
Suitable for: 15–5 kyu
Course Contents
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3 Lessons
4 QuizzesReviews
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Presented so-so (maybe the English dubbing makes it less atractive), but knowledge is super useful, but also very hard! There could be much more of the examples with increasing difficulty, and also the wrong options in quizes should be explained better (why the move is wrong; I do appreciate however that this would be much more work). Also the course is very hard!! I think more level 3 than 2-3…
HelpfulThere are some beautiful moves in this mini-course, and useful concepts. I think it assumes a reading ability stronger than most DDK players will have, so solutions may look arbitrary or hard to follow if you haven't done a lot of problems. If you're doing SDK-level tsumego and want to see some new tricks? It's worth your time.
HelpfulVery useful but a bit advanced for double digit kyu. I think I needed more explanation about how to find that particular tesuji move. Because all other variations are not valid. Tests need exact answer in this course which often made me guess instead of finding solution. I'd like tesuji based on more than one valid variation. Otherwise, it just becomes memorising exercise.
HelpfulThe course was good overall. The concept of giving in a little to get something better was well explained. The dubbing could do a little better, and please give more explanations. I also feel like all 3 videos were basically explaining just one tesuji. It could be better if different tesujis were also explained.
HelpfulOne of the things I needed to improve my skills, I would only say something about protecting cutting points in the lesson and say how all those examples come together. 3rd lesson was really nice
HelpfulThe course was good, concise, and introduced useful Tesuji ideas without filler. As constructive feedback, the dubbing could be better. I also wanted deeper explanations, more variations, and the reasoning behind each move. Most importantly, please teach the principles of finding Tesuji, why it works in one position but not another, instead of assuming students already know the ideas.
HelpfulI‘ve started this course for the second time and will just stop because I‘m not learning anything from it.
I thought maybe now that I‘m a bit stronger I might understand, but this is either too hard for me or rather not explained well enough.
Example positions for which you just have to guess the right next move - no explanation. You can do better than that!HelpfulFrom my perspective the course was really helpful. The concept of giving in a little bit or to increase the sacrifice to gain more power was well explained and demonstrated with good examples.
HelpfulThanks for the help, but I'm afraid that I still hate tesujis. They still just seem like trick plays that only work in very specific contexts and and therefore must be memorized or studied in painful detail. For me, that's when the game stops being enjoyable. I suppose that once I get destroyed by tricks in enough games I will begin to remember them through sheer trauma.
HelpfulGotta say that I really disliked this course. My emotions about it are really 1 star. But I'm aware that's probably just because I'm a weak player. I really enjoyed the change of pace to have a teacher other than Vadim who covers all the intro material. But I felt like the concepts were very poorly explained. What actually is a tesuji? Never explained. How do we find the patterns? Just guess.
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