Joseki ABCs or WTH is Happening in the Corner

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Your first joseki guide

December 2021
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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.

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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 1 week ago

A fantastic starting point to understand joseki, I will definitely rewatch it a couple of times for a better understanding!

Posted 2 weeks ago

I really needed more Joseki knowledge, and this was perfect for me! Learning Joseki in a dry manner wasn't for me, but the course gave me the theory I was missing and the puzzles are great to be able to re-play the situations multiple times. I'll reset and replay them, to really make it stick.

Posted 3 weeks ago

Loved this course but I will need to repeat it some times before I fully get everything

Posted 4 weeks ago

What an absolutely insane course. Loved every puzzle, will be definitely revisiting

Posted 1 month ago

So good at demystifying a completely mystifying part of the game. Wonderful course.

Posted 1 month ago

Very good

Posted 1 month ago

I think it's not really an easy part of Go, great content.

Posted 2 months ago

Great intro to joseki. I appreciate the emphasis on keeping things simple and understanding the why behind all the moves in the different joseki

Posted 2 months ago

I like the the set of joseki taught was kept very simple. It would be great if we had a tool to practice them online apart from the quizzes

Posted 2 months ago

Very intersting, thanks !

Posted 2 months ago

I appreciate how Vadim urges the player to build a foundation through understanding this basic joseki repertoire. I found taking lots of notes necessary to absorb the material. It would be nice if there was a pdf to accompany the material. Who will write the updated version of 38 Basic Joseki?

Posted 3 months ago

Loved it! Super helpful and light introduction to joseki. Just complicated enough.

Posted 3 months ago

The course is good. i think it goes from simple to hard a little too fast though.

Posted 3 months ago

I spent the most time on this lesson than previous lessons. This is the brick wall that abated my pride and was also the most exciting. Yes, "do not memorize joseki, but study it."

Posted 3 months ago

... where the SDK adventures begin

Posted 3 months ago

excellent course for beginning to understand joseki

Posted 4 months ago

good

Posted 5 months ago

Thank You!

Posted 6 months ago

Comprehensive and detailed enough to be revisited at many levels. Honestly, game changing already in the few opportunities I've had to apply these principles.

Posted 7 months ago

As a ~1K player, I was expecting the course to be too much basic. Instead, due to the great explanations, I learned a lot of things to better understand josekis. The explanation of AI impact is also great

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