Shapes in Go — this is one of the most beautiful concepts within the game. Making good shapes requires a fine balance of aesthetic vision and precision of execution. In a way, it is similar to the Japanese art of Ikebana – flower arrangement. With enough creativity and experience you will transform your games into black-and-white paintings. This is the first course in the Shape series.
Suitable for: 20–14 kyu. Right after learning the fundamentals.
A huge thanks to Tuệ Trần, Nguyễn Nam Hoàng and Hang Anh for their precious help with this course.
Course Contents
Teacher
Course Includes
8 Lessons 
12 Quizzes 
~ 1.5 hour Reviews
Pretty basic, but still good. I demand more courses on the topic!
I liked the videos, especially the one about shape alloys was illuminating. The quizzes left me puzzled more than once, though.
Another special course - very useful, catchy and funny. The story about the Black Knight and the music analogies are both captivating and insightful. Vadim's explanations make complex concepts easy to understand. Highly recommended for beginners!
I wish this course was available 30 years ago good work!
Another good course
Really good, Easy to follow along 😀
What i love about this course, as well as many of the courses on Go Magic, is that it teaches principles that work consistently and doesn’t get bogged down in minutiae of hundreds of variations. Apply them to your games, see how they work and progress in knowledge and technique at a great rate! Thank you again for making content that works.
Great introductory course on shapes. I would have liked to see a few more compound shapes covered in it though, but good DDK introduction, for sure.
Good one.
Highly recommended Shapes lesson !!
An amazing intro to shape thank you
An amazing intro to shapes
Great content! Yet another course that really feels like it sets a piece of the puzzle in place in getting into the game.
Now I know what I've been missing. No matter how light I begin somehow I usually end up blobby. Bad shape abounding! But now I see the light (maybe should say "hear the cord")! Great information and tunefully presented. Love it.
Thank you so much for this course with the extra music course 🙂 I'm looking forward for the second one. In the next one I hope you talk about double hane vs hane and extend and how to pick one of them for creating lights or strong shapes for attacking, reducing,invading or defending territory.
I like the videos very much so far. It's great for beginners, with funny stories to help memorise the information. I would have preferred the "Curved Shapes" as two videos, since shorter videos are easier to fit into a busy (family) day. Around ten minutes is perfect to watch in one go (usually...). Thank you for this course. I'm looking forward to the second part!
Спасибо. Глубже понял тему форм.
Не прошло и полгода с момента начала моего обучения, как пробел по формам заполнился :)) после танца форм под Вальс Цветов эта тема меня очень заинтересовала. А в курсе есть анонс на следующее музыкальное продолжение. Желаю вам побыстрее сделать следующие занятия в развитии этой темы. И предложение: подвесьте и тут этот танец бонусом - уж очень наглядно вышло. Повторение - мать учения.
Полезный курс, спасибо большое. Когда ждать уровень 2? 🙂
As always, a great course! It seems most useful to watch it almost immediately after mastering the rules. I hope to see more advanced courses on this topic in the future.