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
This really helped me understand how shapes work! Great course!
Try to feel shape. People say that. What does it mean? After this course, I'm starting to feel shapes, strong and weak, secure and risky. Shape quality depends on the local environment and defies a simple mathematical characterization. That is frustrating and fascinating.
Starting with fundamentals that provide a basic understanding of good vs. bad shape and their potential, this course is a delightful experience that really helps students gain confidence when working with the basic building blocks of Go.
Even I, a very experienced and high level player, receive much from taking these more elementary courses. It is not a joke to say that shapes and fundamentals are the base functions of even the most legendary pro. It always pays to come back to this topic and refresh yourself and it always pays to keep an eye on your shape.
Clear, engaging introduction to fundamental shapes. They may seem elementary, but a good game of Go is built on these -- they never go out of style!
First of all, I love Music Go! More of that please. Second, I really appreciated how simple this course was kept in introducing only a handful of shapes. I also appreciated that it was shown how the simple shapes expand over the board. This course feels infinitely applicable to learning gameplay. Excellent.
I have started using more shape moves and found that the opponent can’t break into my territory as easily.
Foundational! Feels like building a solid house brick by brick. As always, engaging and effective teaching style. Thanks!
Great content, thank you !
improved my understanding of fundamental go shapes
Great course by a great teacher !
mandatory knowledge for all go players.
Great course and references, maybe I’ll stop using the tiger’s mouth anywhere possible))
Very nice. I enjoyed the music-go part.
Great course! Especially liked the references to music and the knight story.
Loved the adventures of Willie the Wedger!
Really interesting course with nice puzzles along the lectures. Maybe only sometimes too much distraction with references to music, raw materials and knighthood 😉
Good course overall. Just wish child friendly language is used throughout this and other courses. While I’m not religious, it’s hard for me to recommend this course and Go Magic in general to children especially those in religious households because of the use of “god-damn” in the Tiger’s Mouth lesson.
Great course to get a better feel for the game!
Excellent introductory course. When reviewing speed it up super for revision.