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Joseki ABCs or WTH is Happening in the Corner

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Your first joseki guide

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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.

Teacher

Vadim Efimenko 4d

Amateur Go player and nerdy Go research aficionado. Co-founder of Go Magic.
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Course Includes

11 Lessons
9 Quizzes
~ 2.5 hours

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Posted 6 days ago

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.

Posted 2 weeks ago

Very helpful info for framing your opening strategy even if you just understand a few simple joseki.

Posted 3 weeks ago

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

Posted 1 month ago

Really love this course !

Posted 1 month ago

I learned a lot

Posted 2 months ago

I have learned a lot and there is still so much to learn.

Posted 3 months ago

great course 🙂

Posted 4 months ago

Joseki. thats what you get

Posted 4 months ago

Loved it

Posted 5 months ago

While not particularly suited for beginners like myself, it remains very interesting to watch. It provides a good understanding of the logic behind josekis.

Posted 5 months ago

A lot of good technical knowledge for intermediate players

Posted 6 months ago

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!

Posted 6 months ago

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.

Posted 7 months ago

Hard to keep track of variations so incredibly helpful.

Posted 7 months ago

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

Posted 8 months ago

This is certainly the most difficult course so far. Trying to imprint in my brain even the limited number of Joseki covered is quite the challenge. Being able to step forwards and backwards through the quiz moves and variations is a great help. I can see myself revisiting this course often.

Posted 8 months ago

Very useful! It gives me a lot more confidence to know that I am prepared for many of these sequences. I also thought that the professional games were a nice touch. The quizzes were particularly strong in this course; I repeated them several times to drill them into my memory.

Posted 9 months ago

This course is a crucial next step for new players who have acquired the basics. Josekis are an integral aspect of the game that should not be overlooked. This course provides you with the essential tools and knowledge to embark on your journey as a competent player, enabling you to progress further based on your own curiosity and determination.

Posted 10 months ago

More than 2 hours of Josekis is unfortunately too much to process for me at once.

Posted 10 months ago

This is a great course though it is the hardest course I've done so far. I realised before taking the course that memorising josekis in a rote manner isn't the most productive Go discipline as it doesn't prepare you for opponents going off track. There are some "what if" quiz scenerios which are useful. I find doing a quiz and then playing out variations post joseki is useful.

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