Typical Mistakes That Wouldn’t Let Us Get Better

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Correcting some of the most common beginners’ mistakes
September 2020
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If you are feeling stuck somewhere in the double digit kyus, it might be because you keep making the same mistakes without realizing it. Let’s try to correct some of those mistakes.

There is a sequel to this course: Typical Mistakes 2.0

Suitable for: 17–10 kyu players who know the basics of Go well.

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Teacher

Vadim Efimenko 4d

Amateur Go player and nerdy Go research aficionado

Free

Course Includes

7 Lessons
8 Quizzes

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Posted 15 minutes ago

Very useful.

Posted 1 day ago

Getting the breakdown of common mistakes was incredibly useful, commentary like this is always incredibly beneficial for actual understanding.

Posted 2 days ago

Excellent and very useful!

Posted 1 week ago

go is such a complicated game to start to get competent at. having a course like this is the next best thing to having a skilled player review your games and tell you what big mistakes youre repeating. thank you so much!!

Posted 1 week ago

Good

Posted 4 weeks ago

Useful and real world examples, understandable for my beginner level.

Posted 4 weeks ago

very useful thank you

Posted 4 weeks ago

i rewtched the videos recently ang i noticed how useful these fundamentals were even after a rewatch. thank you for the course

Posted 1 month ago

Really useful for beginners, like me.

Posted 1 month ago

the entire course, including the explanations

Posted 1 month ago

Great for beginners

Posted 2 months ago

very useful advises

Posted 2 months ago

Very interesting and useful thanks 🙂

Posted 2 months ago

Great course to challenge some thinking patterns that block your progress

Posted 2 months ago

This course clearly explains common mistakes in go. It is clear and easy to understand. I would reccomend this course.

Posted 3 months ago

Like the other ones, this course is really well done, and very clearly explains important principles of go. The alternating videos and exercises bring a lot to the dynamics of the course and have more pedagogical value.

Posted 3 months ago

Really great principles and explanations. Sometimes its unclear to me, a beginner, how to anticipate what the opponent responses will be. I'm sure more time and practice will develop this skill, but some additional explanation of correct solutions in the quizzes would be helpful.

Posted 3 months ago

Really nice course for beginners

Posted 3 months ago

Oh. That's why I'm losing. 😂 My suggestion is to approach this entire course as a collection of examples. As a beginner, I was not ready for some of the examples, while others made perfect sense. Treat each one as an opportunity to learn from others' mistakes.

Posted 3 months ago

I mostly took this to see what the courses on this site are like. I'm a 1 dan player, so I'm not exactly target audience of this course.I was happy that some of the content is still relevant. In some of the premature endgame situations I would be hesitant to ignore. I also sometimes play the "imaginary nets" because I expect them to lead to a good squeeze, but I should think about them more.

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