The Main Principles of a Glorious Opening

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Let's make the first few steps in the opening and learn about some of its intricacies.
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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.

Teacher

Vadim Efimenko 4d

Amateur Go player and nerdy Go research aficionado. Co-founder of Go Magic.
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Course Includes

9 Lessons
7 Quizzes
~ 2.5 hours

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Posted 1 week ago

Very good course. I saw in the final quiz that I understand Fuseki a lot better now.

Posted 2 weeks ago

Excelente, da pie para probar muchas cosas

Posted 1 month ago

After completing all of the lessons I feel a lot more comfortable about opening strategy. It was also surprisingly entertaining and like all of the GoMagic courses, extremely well-executed. Gonna run through this once more before my Silver membership expires to solidify things.

Posted 1 month ago

Great!

Posted 2 months ago

It's very clear and helpful!

Posted 2 months ago

Really enjoyed part two of the course, about the various openings - old and new. I definitely need to go over the first part again, I don't think I got all I could from it. I'll give it another go in a week or two...

Posted 3 months ago

I really appreciated the focus on different historical approaches. It is fun to see how widely varied the options are and the reminder that the beginner guidelines aren't meant to be limiting to future innovation, but to build enough skill with the game to be able to develop new approaches and strategies.

Posted 3 months ago

Very good and useful course that reveals the opeining principles for beginners.

Posted 3 months ago

Another great course. I also liked the history part in it

Posted 3 months ago

Great. Concise and illustrative examples with a lot of relevant Go history. Exercises were well-structured

Posted 3 months ago

Great fundamental understanding of Fuseki, directly including the traditional, modern and even AI principles, with some smart advice to be careful not to copy what you can't fathom yourself.

Posted 4 months ago

Great

Posted 5 months ago

Great course. As a 5k I felt that I know most of it, but it definitely secured the information in my head. The quizzes were great and exposed to me places where I'm lacking. Thanks!

Posted 5 months ago

I enjoyed it more than I thought !!! ... I definitely need more opening lessons !!

Posted 5 months ago

Nice explanations, much charm. But I would like to find somewhere more about invasions and attacking.

Posted 6 months ago

Very useful for beginners

Posted 6 months ago

Great course for beginner

Posted 6 months ago

wow

Posted 6 months ago

A few quiz questions were challenging, tho the solution has an informative explanation. Part 1 could use more examples and quizzes. Upon a revisiting of the course, I reaffirm that Pt.2's history, AI, and random openings (while interesting)...is not in-depth enough to be uber useful for Opening Strategy. Perhaps, a few more vids on choosing an appropriate joseki would of been more helpful? TY!

Posted 7 months ago

That's the first course that felt really challenging in term of exercises, really powerful stuff that will take time to sink in. Awesome job!

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