Moving to the Middle Game
Every move counts in a game of Go, but some moves more then others. And there is a frame of moves that often go unnoticed. This frame stretches for only ten moves or so, but they can shift the entire flow of a game — alter the very turn of the heavens, as it were.
These moves consist of the edge between the civilized opening and the wild wild west that is the middle game of Go. Almost immaterial to the untrained eye, command over this short sequence of stones can give you the power to wrangle an unruly game back under control or give you a large lead as you gallop ahead into the next frontier!
In this course we will give you the tools to identify when this gap begins and ends and increase your awareness of the board position to boldly use this new know-how to transfer from opening tactics to middle scouting and fighting. Together, lets take our first step past the opening edge and venture into the middle game!
Suitable for: 14–5 kyu
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Cool but I’m not sure how helpful it actully is during the game. Maybe I need to gain some strength to grasp it better.
HelpfulThis is exactly what I needed! I didn't even know that before starting the course. These concepts are the ones I needed to learn and use in my games. Especially the part "do not tenuki when the midgame fight started", 'cause I tend to do that a lot. Explanation on game types and how to handle them was also very useful. Thank you so much!
HelpfulI like and enjoy Matthew, but this one was not for me and felt too basic and light on insight (I'm 6-8k). The definition of the middle game given here also feels arbitrary and not sufficient. After about 20 minutes I felt like I had still not learned much. I wish the course was more dense with insights, principles, problems and went into more topics that are central to mid-game play.
HelpfulThe course was good, with an engaging teaching style, and it gave us a basic idea of how to play the opening and the middle game. As constructive feedback, I felt it lacked detailed explanations. It also didn't clearly explain when the middle game begins or, more importantly, how to play it, especially around move 130, which is the most critical part. Overall, it was still a good course.
HelpfulGreat course! Matthew is a very entertaining teacher. It's quite hard to judge when exactly the middle game starts, so this definitely helped a bit. The territorial vs moyo-oriented part was also very helpful!
HelpfulLoved this course! I'm still not very good at recognizing when the middlegame begins, but at least I have some useful guidelines now. I also learned a lot from the game reviews of professional players. I hope there will be even more of those later. 😀
HelpfulGreat course, I wish it would have lasted another 20 lessons!
HelpfulGood course. Matthew is a fun teacher with a good personality. The subject was interesting, challenging and useful. The technical difficulties in sound and video editing were funny but really should be cleaned up. Too distracting and unprofessional to let slide.
HelpfulThis go teacher is both funny, interesting and passionate. This gave me lot of energy to enjoy Go !
Thanks guys for this unique and funny video editing tooHelpfulThis is a great course, but the cuts in the videos are a little disorienting.
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