Fuseki is the most creative and enigmatic part of the game. There are thousands of options and you never know what this or that move will lead to. How to build a strategy at the beginning of the game?
In this course you will discover which moves in the opening are considered big and which ones are even more important than that. We will take a look at efficiency, choosing a favorite opening and some of the ideas behind the classic opening moves.
Suitable for: 16–7k who are already familiar with the main principles of playing on 19×19.
Course Contents
Teacher
Course Includes
9 Lessons 
7 Quizzes 
~ 2.5 hours Reviews
Great introduction to the opening!
This course provides very useful insights into opening the game. Several variations are demonstrated, including very interesting and advanced openings like 3 star opening and the black hole. It's not about reproducing these specific openings, it's all about understanding them correctly
Superb opening course. Even easier to grasp the foundational of opening theory then the beloved books like Opening Theory Made Easy (by Hideo Otake), Dwyrin's How to Open Go and much more so compared to In the Beginning (by Ikuro Ishigure). The final videos on history of openings and odd opening (like Black Hole) were absolutely breath taking in their delivery of concepts.
A lot of valuable informations
Educational and helpful.
I like the quizzes, because I always think I understood perfectly what Vadim explained so nicely, but then I see that I have to try it out for myself and practise. Great course with easy to follow explanations.
I am loving learning about Go. This course helps consolidate the earlier principles learned in the introductory courses, including the rich cultural aspects of the game, whilst enticing the learner to expect more ideas as their skills develop. Opening moves (Fuseki): corners, sides, middle, strengthen; easier said than done but the course provides excellent clear and digestible, step by step ideas
I've improved my opening play by going through this course. I found that pausing the videos, rewatching and breaking the opening moves down helps a lot. I do find that on the questions and quizs during and after the videos it can sometimes be obtuse. If answered wrong a move breakdown for more questions would be better. I would recommend viewers get a decent opening theory book as a compliment.
In my opinion a very good course introducing the main principles of the opening and the changes AI brought to classical opening theory. Very useful for actual play.
Overall OK, but the quizzes can be improved. Some feel like joseki’s that were not shown in the video. Sometimes the response on a wrong answer is too cryptic (eg “wrong shape”), or doesn’t really explain why the right answer is indeed bigger/more urgent, than another answer. The creative fuseki of dan players is interesting, but deserves a separate video for more advanced players.
As usual good course for anyone who wants to keep improving their game, specially for someone who keep coming and going back into Go
Simply great! I really enjoy that he brings forth the joy of improvising, and that the important part is not to play "perfect AI moves" but to to learn and know what you are doing.
For so many years I have not progressed in any way in the opening. Sure I would play loose and in corners first extending from small walls and pincering. Well in the space of a few days doing this course I have learned how to make better decisions in the opening. Alongside the Joseki course I have learned more in a week than in last 50 years of casual play.
This is a great course that should advance any beginner player's understanding of openings. One slight criticism I make is that parts of the course seem to assume knowledge, particularly regarding shapes and josekis, that probably should not be assumed for beginner players to possess.
Great course, my second run now, saw many things that I wasn't able to put into practice effectively the first time around. Very informative, as ever.
The most interesting course so far. In the old days I found Joseki books so indigestible. This format and exposition is so much better. I will be coming back to this often. Thank you!
Great course! I need to go out and play a couple dozen games and take it again. I'm sure I'll get even more out of it a second time around.
I probably should’ve completed the 19x19 course first, however this course does a great job of explaining the principles of strong openings with professional Josekis and what AI has been doing. As usual, very educational and engaging!
Good complement to first 19x19 course
Very fun course! It got me really thinking about the importance of sente, as well as how to improvise based on the situation on the board as it evolves. It have me the confidence to break away somewhat from the standard openings my teacher is so fond of, which seems to be working well so far in one of my games against a more advanced student.