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
This course was tough for me but in a good way. Learning joseki is something I have so far avoided believing that they would be tedious to learn in depth, but now I see that having a basic grounding in joseki logic is essential to making progress in the game. I am now going to repeat this course while it is fresh in my mind to reinforce the logic and techniques I am still digesting.
A lot of material but well explained. Going through once is not enough. I liked it a lot!
At first this Joseki course frustrated me greatly and by the end of it I was still frustrated but learned a whole lot. I had massive difficulty but everything was explained clearly so if you're like me, just focus hard and push through. With this and the opening course I am no longer scared of the beginning, just everything that follows. ; )
That was eye opening and tough at the same time. Need to go over this multiple times to get the principles to stick, but once again Vadim did an excellent job in presenting the information in an easy to digest way. I can't believe I got 92%!
Great course which expands my opening knowledge, while being hard enough at the same time. 🙂
What I enjoyed about this course is that it doesn’t try to cover the myriad of variations for every joseki……..but it does give you a very good grounding about the nuts and bolts and purposes of how to construct your josekis for the results you most desire.
Very good course, explaining the josekis, but not "all of them" - just those that are most basic, and simplest. The course shows that understanding a joseki is more important than memorising it.
This was a great course. It took me time to complete it, but it was worth it. I should come back to this in a few months.
Very nice and useful course! I often come back to specific parts to refresh my memory of important joseki. I also really liked how both classical and modern/AI joseki are taught. I still find it hard to remember the moves in actual games. I think only the quizzes are not enough to fully learn the sequences, you really have to practice more and/or force yourself to play them in games to remember
It is a course that is good to visit at least twice!
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A lot of content. Almost overwhelming. Ends in a very good point about how memorization is not the correct approach, which I think is good advice for most players (myself included) who are at the level to take this course.
Going with 4.5star on this course. Some lessons could be broken down with more quizzes in between. I like Go history, but when showing older variations that are less preferable, I tend to wonder if they are needed in such a course, yet Vadim does go over the various weaknesses so there's that. Was unsure how to properly approach San San. This video answered that mystery. Also, good humor, TY!
I really like the jokes inside the videos. However, there are lots of variations to keep in mind. It's hard for me 🙁
Nice course. Informative, not boring.
There is a lot of valuable information in this course. The most valuable information was Vadim's advice to not memorize joseki. It is important to understand the basic reasoning of them, but using different patterns without comprehension is foolish. I will have to return to this course again in the future to hone my opening some more. Thanks for the education!
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Usual good production, but the course was hard. One needs to recall the moves to use joseki even though you are taught not to memorise them. The actual approach to _learning_ them is not really provided in this course - it is really just a presentation of some of the joseki, but nothing to help you learn them. This course would benefit with some materials (e.g. an SGF, PDFs, or similar)
Hi. Excellent course as many others! Can I ask for a feature, it should be useful especially for this course, some kind of 'refresher' quiz to repeat and remember main principles? It is a little bit inconvenient to go over quizzes manually. Thanks!
The curse is very good and thoroughly explained, but it's hard to memorize ALL the joseki. I have been going through the vídeos multiple times and also using the Skill Tree to practice.