Wenn man dich nach einem legendären Go-Spieler aus dem modernen Japan fragt, fallen dir vielleicht Takemiya Masaki, Cho Chikun oder Kato Masao ein. Diese Spieler haben je einen eigenen, schönen Stil, und ihre Geschichten sind bekannt. Fragte ich nach älteren Legenden, kämen dir wohl Namen wie Fujisawa Shuko, Sakata Eio, Go Seigen oder Kitani Minoru in den Sinn – wieder Spieler von Rang, mit bekannten Stilen und Geschichten. Was aber, wenn ich dir sage, dass es einen Namen gibt, der ebenso viel Anerkennung verdient wie die Meister, die du kennst – wenn nicht sogar mehr? Einen Spieler, so eigen und mit einem so wahnwitzigen Stil, dass ein Blick auf seine Partien ein Blick in die Wahrheit des Go selbst ist?
Die Rede ist von Kajiwara Takeo. Er war eine einzigartige, außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit – am Brett wie daneben. Sein Go war lebendig, es hauchte jedem Stein aus Schiefer und Muschel Leben ein, und jeder seiner Züge war ein Funke menschlichen Erfindungsgeists. Machen wir gemeinsam wieder gut, was die Geschichte ihm angetan hat, und rücken Kajiwaras Namen wieder ins Bewusstsein. Am Ende dieses Kurses zeigen wir dir, dass das Lebendige Go noch lebt – und wie es dein Go-Verständnis verbessert, selbst in einer Zeit, die von künstlicher Intelligenz beherrscht wird.
Geeignet für: 10k–9d. Ein historischer Kurs – interessant für Spieler jeder Spielstärke.
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Super fun, interesting and inspirational. Love Matthews teaching style a lot, although some more technical replicable concepts would make me improve more probably
Good course, the historical and cultural background is immensely precious. Ben is a titan of studying Japan.
fun and interesting course, but would have loved to see more technical content
Excellent course. Between all the courses that discuss strategy and tactics, openings and endgame, it's great to have courses as well that highlight the life and games of a player. For that type of course, I think the pace was excellent in this one: lots of good stories, fascinating games to enjoy and learn from. Matthew's love for the game is inspiring; would love to see more courses like this.
This course is great. Matt clearly loves Go and Kajiwara. And his passion shows through excellently. Lots of great tidbits to improve my game as well as fascinating stories to digest. Another great aspect: my son enjoyed watching the game reviews with me, which was indescribably wonderful!
I was hoping for more direction of play, more re-usable patterns, or intuition building principles. PS: the quiz about historical facts do nothing for me, I would have preferred technical questions to improve my play, it has no value to me to remember the name of the closest restaurant to wherever he grew up ...
Quite some interesting historical remarks have been added to the content
Really love the passion from Matthew during the course. Inspirational to play in a more beautiful way, even that could mean less practical
Thank you for remembering us that we have to play beautifull games.
Man what an amazing course, thank you so much! So interesting and at the same time entertaining, lots of hindsights about the go world, as well as amazing games. Takeo Kajiwara is now one of my inspiration and favorite player. Great great job, I hope to see more courses like this one!
I agree with most of the reviews, sometimes a little long-winded but the subject matter is interesting and the passion for the subject shows for sure. Very interesting look into the history of 20th century Japanese go
Important historical course. Personally I found the style a bit slow, but the content is great.
Very well brought course, but I found it very long and too much explaining his playing style time and time again. That felt too repetitive but nevertheless Matt is a great storyteller.
Wow, one of my favorite history lessons. Matthew is fun and a great communicator. Let’s play go!
I enjoyed this course. Impressive how Matthew brings history to life and combines it with useful Go lessons.
Matt is a masterful, masterful storyteller. I was captivated by Kajiwara’s story and found his life and game lessons very inspiring. Enjoy go and search for the truth! Thank you Matt!
I like Matt as an instructor and this course is valuable so I will give it 5 starts. This being said, I found the course a little underwhelming probably because of my respect for Direction of Play, Kajiwara, Matt, the sheer length of this Go Magic course. As a historical, trivia and game review course it delivers, but it holds less Go skill content than expected, especially direction of play.
Normally I really enjoy historical course... Too long not because of the material but more about the flow of the comment. Sorry to not be agree with the other, but like Kajiwara I tell what I think...
It was very well done, a chance to learn about old players. Waiting for the next lesson with the same style.
The course clearly took a lot of effort, especially at 6 hours long. However, most of it felt like storytelling and discussion, which I could get from ChatGPT. I hoped to learn practical techniques, tactics, direction of play, and deeper analysis of the games shown, but there wasn’t enough explanation of key ideas. So the practical benefit was limited. Thank you, and I look forward to more!