Defensive Tesujis In a Nutshell

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.

Top hard quizzes at the end, with too long sequences.. Some helpful info during the course, but I had preferred the others lessons

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.