The game has just started, you played the first corner sequence and something clearly went wrong. Sounds familiar? Those are issues with playing the initial corner variations — joseki.
In this course you will learn the main simple joseki patterns and understand what they are made of. How not to screw things up if your opponent chooses a difficult variation and how to make it complicated if necessary. The joseki will no longer seem like scary sharp-toothed monsters, more like a set of useful tools. What’s left now is to choose a suitable one at the right moment.
Suitable for: 15–7k who are already familiar with the basic opening principles.
Course Contents
Teacher
Course Includes
11 Lessons 
9 Quizzes 
~ 2.5 hours Reviews
Useful, but hard to remember. Providing a visualised decision tree would be helpful (for example, in PDF format)
Excelent course!! Thanks a lot Vadim for great way of presenting the choices that you have to make at the beggining of the game, and that you will have to live with them until the end of the game
In his final wise words, Vadim encourages us to play a few josekis many times instead of learning them out of a textbook. Ironically I don't feel like I know the taught josekis very well, because the exercises do not focus in repetitive learning but punishing wrong decisions. Emphasize more on gradual setup and I am happy to give a five star rating. However, Vadim enthusiasm is a big asset.
I appreciated the modern variations as well as the simpler traditional options—especially that they are clearly presented as such. I thought the amount of information was good for a beginning level course, but the quizzes are more difficult than the content (for example, in terms of understanding certain punishments) and memorization oriented.
Tricky. The urge to simply memorize is great, and it doesn't help that the quizzes ask for step-by-step reproduction. Understanding why each move is optimal by itself is difficult.
Very helpful info for framing your opening strategy even if you just understand a few simple joseki.
This course explains the reasoning behind each joseki move in a clear way, the variations are great and the exercises were great as they teach you how to punish if joseki is not followed, as always, great stuff from go magic
Really love this course !
I learned a lot
I have learned a lot and there is still so much to learn.
great course 🙂
Joseki. thats what you get
Loved it
While not particularly suited for beginners like myself, it remains very interesting to watch. It provides a good understanding of the logic behind josekis.
A lot of good technical knowledge for intermediate players
this is definitely a course I'll will come back to, the basic Joseki shapes are very useful and it's really important to understand the sequences to play and how to punish your opponent if he makes a mistake!
Absolutely perfect for DDK and SDK players. The course hammers down a set of hand picked joseki and teaches the rational behind the moves and some common mistakes / punishments. I did win a couple of games while doing this course as I was able to implement the exact punishments. The interactive and chill approach makes this pure gold.
Hard to keep track of variations so incredibly helpful.
useful to understand the rationale behind the moves. The basic joseki's are covered and you have some tools to judge shape and direction of play, as in most games things get off track pretty quickly
It’s definitely a changeling course. It's mentioned in the videos not to memorize joseki, then the quiz asks you to replay joseki step by step—sometimes for both Black and White. Perhaps the idea isn’t to avoid memorization altogether, but to stress understanding why each stone is placed on a particular intersection.