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.
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HelpfulThe course was good and introduced several important shape concepts that are essential to recognize. As constructive feedback, I felt there were too few shapes, and they weren't explored in enough depth. It would help to explain why each shape is good, how to play against it, and how to choose between different shapes in similar situations. Overall, it was a good introduction.
HelpfulI enjoyed seeing the aesthetics, the beauty, and the balance of the forms, realizing the principle of balance that exists in the game and that something seemingly inadequate or ugly can be the key to something great (hidden in its ugliness).
HelpfulAs the other courses from Vadim that I followed, this course is excellent. The explanations go at a very good pace (not too fast, neither too slow), with very interesting examples from real games (and from historic games, which I find very cool), very good and helpful analogies with music and other fields... I recommend this course.
HelpfulMy first course here and it's a good one. The music analogy is excellent. Looking forward to more courses now.
HelpfulPerfect fundamentals course. Would have preferred it to be at the silver tier, but I understand why it's in gold. Excellent lessons building concepts step-by-step. Final quizzes are slightly esoteric but fantastic expansions on the material. No lazy answers allowed.
HelpfulGood course
HelpfulI found the course very interesting showing the idea about being light in the game, i learned a lot on how tomake good shapes and it gives us a perspective on how to play better moves, he explains it very well throughout the course.
I could see in the pro games he shows how effective it is to play good shape.HelpfulExcellent introductory course. When reviewing speed it up super for revision.
HelpfulThis really helped me understand how shapes work! Great course!
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