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
Teacher
Course Includes
3 Lessons 
4 Quizzes 
~ 50 min Reviews
I learnt a lot about how to give up the right amount of territory or stones to maintain a good shape
Excellent course very nice
Very nice. A lot of useful tricks to keep in mind.
It was great to invite Alexey for a course. It's really helpful to have a different approach. I enjoyed the course. However, the final quiz was hard. By the way, I couldn't find "Concepts of Go: The Path from Beginner to Master" that he authored. Thanks.
OOF! Most difficult course yet. I enjoyed the concepts, however the actual problems were above my level. I will definitely go through it again in the future. As for captions - watching the lessons on a computer is best, as you are able to relocate the captions to a part of the screen nearer to the stones, so it is easier to follow along.
Course is very short but so interesting. I would like to see more tesuji commentaries
Final problems required to complete the course are too long and too difficult forcing repeating them over and over. The course is also a bit too short and it's annoying that the lecturer doesn't speak English. I know that there is also dubbed version but still it's not the same with sync issues. I guess it's dedicated more to lvl 3 players than lvl 2.
The lectures are very good. The examples are well thought out and thoroughly explained. And the quizzes will test you, especially the final advanced quiz. Thanks Alex, for a very helpful course. 🙂
good course but feels a little bit like a short random collection of problems
Nice course! sacrificing stones is a thing that most of us Kyu players dont like to do, however, it opens a lot of possibilities
not bad
loved the course
Besides the obvious language issue (the English version is sub par with long silences), there are some gaps in the content from "a sacrifice can help you" to actually developing the mechanics to understand those sacrifices.
Far too difficult for me, to the point it almost seemed like Greek.
i cannot russian i would like english!!
A good reminder on the fact that we should not think narrowly to just save everything we can. It can be better to loose bigger and get a better position
Simply fantastic. Alexey breaks down specific tesujis into broader concepts, giving techniques for gaining a tactical advantage in the local position. I learned how to give in and give up stones to build a better shape for the future. The advanced problem set was sufficiently challenging. Going through them more than once was very helpful.
Very good brief lesson on learning principles of when you need to back off and potentially give up a few points to create much stronger shapes, as well as learning several tesujis. I was able to follow along fine using captions. This course is probably best suited for SDK level, the quizzes will be very difficult for a DDK player. 5/5 rating
Impressive content, but a bit on the härter side.
Great information about shapes. Found the pacing a little fast, but this will be a good course for me to revisit in the future. Quizzes definitely pushed me to read beyond my current level.