현대 일본의 전설적인 기사를 한 사람 꼽아 보라고 하면 다케미야 마사키, 조치훈, 가토 마사오 같은 이름이 떠오를 것입니다. 기풍은 아름답고 개성이 뚜렷하며, 그 이야기도 널리 알려져 있습니다. 더 옛 시대의 전설을 꼽아 보라면 후지사와 슈코, 사카타 에이오, 오청원, 기타니 미노루 같은 이름이 나올 테고, 역시 누구나 아는 기사에 기풍도 이야기도 잘 알려져 있습니다. 그런데 그 명인들에 못지않은, 아니 그 이상의 찬사를 받아 마땅한 이름이 있다면 어떨까요? 너무나 독창적이고 기풍이 너무나 파격적이어서, 그 기보를 들여다보는 일이 바둑의 진실 그 자체를 마주하는 일과 같은 기사가 있었다면요?
바로 가지와라 다케오입니다. 반상에서도 반상 밖에서도 견줄 데 없이 남다른 사람이었습니다. 그의 바둑은 살아 있었습니다. 돌 하나하나, 조가비 하나하나에 숨을 불어넣었고, 한 수 한 수가 사람의 재기가 반짝이는 순간이었습니다. 역사의 잘못을 함께 바로잡고, 가지와라의 이름을 바둑의 지도 위에 다시 올려놔요. 그리고 강좌의 끝에서는 ‘살아 있는 바둑’이 지금도 살아 있다는 것, 인공지능이 지배하는 시대에도 그것이 바둑을 이해하는 데 도움이 된다는 것을 보여 드립니다.
대상: 10급–9단. 역사를 다루는 강좌라 기력과 상관없이 누구나 재미있게 볼 수 있습니다.
강좌 목차
강좌 구성
강의 22개
퀴즈 8개리뷰
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!