Probing Moves: from Standard to Impossible
Probing Moves or yosu-miru is one of the more advanced skills in Go. We use these moves to ask our opponent how he wants to respond, and depending on his answer we build our future strategy. In this course Alexander will show you some standard probes that you can use in your own games right away. When you are done with the basics, you will see some unusual probing move examples from professional games.
Suitable for: 5kโ5d. Yosu-miru is a challenging dan-level technique. However, SDK players who are striving to get stronger will also find many useful and inspiring things here.
We also recommend watching these two interviews with Alexander: FIRST and SECOND.
All the lessons of this course have English voiceover! The voiceover switch is under the video in each lesson.
Course Contents
Teacher
Course Includes
9 Lessons
8 QuizzesReviews
We publish all reviews; the coins for a review never depend on its rating. How reviews work
- To write a review, a learner must be enrolled in the course and have completed at least one lesson or topic. Earlier reviews needed enrolment only.
- We publish every review at once, whatever its rating, and remove only spam, insults and personal data.
- One review per course; its author can edit or delete it at any time.
- A learner gets 20 coins (the site's points) once per course, for a review with at least 30 characters of text, whatever the rating.
- The average is the plain mean of all ratings. Reviews in your language come first, then those other learners marked helpful (marks on newer reviews count for more), then those with text, newest first.
- Next to newer reviews we show the author's estimated rank on the site and how much of the course they had completed when they last wrote or edited the review.
- The course's teachers and our team may reply to a review publicly.
- To report a review, write to [email protected].
- ~11 kyu ยท 100% of the course done
These lessons really helped me to think about new possibilities on the board
Helpful Thank you for this excellent course from a professional like you. I learned a lot from it. As constructive feedback, I wish you had explained more about probe moves: why we play a probe instead of another move, the differences between them, and when to use each one. We are not at your level to understand these details on our own. A deeper explanation would be greatly appreciated.
HelpfulGreat course to move your game forward. I see lots more possibility on the board after this.
Helpfulgood course, quizes are quite difficult
Helpfulgreat course
HelpfulThe course is great. I learned a lot of things both at the first half and the second half. But the quizzes are the problem. There are several incorrect quizzes and I have reported all that I have noticed. Would be a 5-star after this problem is corrected and all quizzes are perfect.
HelpfulWhen I will be able to incorporate probing moves options naturally in my thinking during games I will have progressed a few stones in the dan range. Up to now, I just try them from time to time, but with no real control. This kind of course, to be reviewed several times, are a must to reach some understanding in the topic.
HelpfulGreat course. Only complaint is that some AI corner enclosure joseki are missing.
HelpfulThis is a difficult course but it is also an amazing one, it teaches how to handle many shimari attachments and using many examples from pro games. I will likely watch this one multiple times.
HelpfulVery inspiring course, I am looking forward to trying some yosu-miru moves in my games. Will definitely need to watch it again and again.
Thanks!Helpful
