
포석에서 중반으로
바둑에서는 한 수 한 수가 중요하지만, 그중에도 특히 중요한 수가 있습니다. 그리고 지나치기 쉬운 한 구간이 있습니다. 길이는 열 수 남짓. 그런데도 한 판의 흐름을 통째로 바꿔 놓습니다. 말하자면 하늘의 운행마저 돌려놓는 셈입니다.
이 몇 수는 질서 있는 포석과 무법천지 같은 중반 사이의 경계에 놓여 있습니다. 익숙하지 않은 눈에는 거의 아무것도 아닌 듯 보이지만, 이 짧은 돌의 흐름을 다룰 줄 알면 헝클어진 바둑을 다시 손안에 넣을 수도 있고, 큰 우세를 안고 다음 벌판으로 달려 나갈 수도 있습니다!
이 강좌에서는 그 틈이 어디서 시작해 어디서 끝나는지 가려낼 도구를 건네고, 판 전체를 보는 감각을 키웁니다. 그 새로운 요령을 과감히 써서 포석의 기술에서 중반의 탐색과 싸움으로 갈아타 봐요. 포석의 경계를 넘어 함께 중반으로 첫발을 내디뎌요!
대상: 14–5급
강좌 목차
사범
Matthew McKee 4d
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리뷰

The course was good, with an engaging teaching style, and it gave us a basic idea of how to play the opening and the middle game. As constructive feedback, I felt it lacked detailed explanations. It also didn't clearly explain when the middle game begins or, more importantly, how to play it, especially around move 130, which is the most critical part. Overall, it was still a good course.
Great course! Matthew is a very entertaining teacher. It's quite hard to judge when exactly the middle game starts, so this definitely helped a bit. The territorial vs moyo-oriented part was also very helpful!
Loved this course! I'm still not very good at recognizing when the middlegame begins, but at least I have some useful guidelines now. I also learned a lot from the game reviews of professional players. I hope there will be even more of those later. 😀
Great course, I wish it would have lasted another 20 lessons!
Good course. Matthew is a fun teacher with a good personality. The subject was interesting, challenging and useful. The technical difficulties in sound and video editing were funny but really should be cleaned up. Too distracting and unprofessional to let slide.
This go teacher is both funny, interesting and passionate. This gave me lot of energy to enjoy Go ! Thanks guys for this unique and funny video editing too
This is a great course, but the cuts in the videos are a little disorienting.
some parts are a bit slow ; interesting historical aspects
While the 19 X 19 quizzes were difficult on a phone (a tablet would be ideal for these), the content of the course is fantastic! Matt does a great job introducing these concepts. I would love to know more about modern Joseki in a future course. In the meantime, I’ll be starting his direction of play course immediately. Excellent.
The middle game is a bear attack you cannot run away from and survive. It is the wild west. I appreciate these lessons in how important it is to be sensitive to when the opening is over and how vital it is to know what kind of game you are playing to adapt accordingly. The comparison between old territorial styles and modern quick play was interesting. Thanks!
I got a lot from this course. I'm right around 10 kyu, and middle game is one of my weakest skills. This course will be one I revisit multiple times.
I love how this guy explains things, he is so funny and engaging! The wild west vibe was great. The course mainly focused on spotting when the middle game begins and I think it can really help in making good decisions. However I feel like it could be much shorter. Sometimes there was a lot of talking but not much content to it. But I liked it anyway and will watch more Matthew's courses for sure.
Excellent course that improved both my understanding of the middlegame and also the opening
Matthew's courses are always great and unique. This one starts "slow" with some important abstract concepts that while exemplified on the board are still harder to understand or accept. But after, subsequent lessons really drive the point home. A lot of examples from meaningful games and though process explanation, also very rich in useful problems.
Good course
Found the lectures insightful and the problems and quizzes engaging. Learned a lot and am looking forward to revisiting it in the future.
Amazing course and great video editing too. So many deep thoughts after finishing.
Great material. A lot of harder fundamentals for the middlegame get explained in an easy to understand way. Also has a great part about AI and new moves. Changed how I play and elevated my game because it presents little parts of the whole one can just try in their games and slowly adapt instead of forcing whole concepts. Highly recommend.
Good content, I really like Matthew's teaching style and speed. I think it would've been useful to have a better thesis statement at the start on what exactly the middle game is. Though, in the end, the idea was effectively sketched out. This is more of a concepts course, so I don't think I immediately gained any strength, but it should have lasting positive effects on how I approach the game.

I like and enjoy Matthew, but this one was not for me and felt too basic and light on insight (I'm 6-8k). The definition of the middle game given here also feels arbitrary and not sufficient. After about 20 minutes I felt like I had still not learned much. I wish the course was more dense with insights, principles, problems and went into more topics that are central to mid-game play.