I’m making a Go club at my college but I don’t know how to make Go sound appealing ,how do I make Go sound appealing to those who have never heard of it? I don’t really know what to say except that Go sharpens your mind. Could I also have some teaching tips because only one besides me knows how to play. Happy to say we have at least 6 members though.
Hey @Corey_W,
Glad to hear that your school Go club is going well! I operate my high school’s Go club and we’ve had ~15 active members in general, so feel free to PM me about these things
Wow I really enjoyed Aji’s Quest but the dub for hikaru no go, shudders I think I will try to get the manga instead for them to read. But I really need to learn how to teach them, I dont really know how to teach someone to play.
First of all, you can show them the “Learn to Play Go” tutorial OGS has made That should get them through the 101 basics of Go!
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the dub for hikaru no go, shudders I think I will try to get the manga instead […] [/quote]AFAIK there also are Versions with just subtitles … I used these (in German) when I introduced kids to Go.
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[…] I really need to learn how to teach them, I dont really know how to teach someone to play.[/quote]Mh… whenever I teach people Go introduce people to Go, I try to remember viewing it as “let’s learn Go together”
You’ll make it. Just because you’re enthusiastic and you take initiative. Just see that you also are having fun, then your Go folks will also have it.
Cordially, Tom
(wondering how I made this: teach people Go ?
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You really have to know your audience/community to figure out how to grow your club. When I ran my club we were really successful when we presented the game as “break material” and once we had enough people as just a well versed community. When we tried advertising the game as competition or to get people learning it did very poorly.
Edit: By advertising the community I mean, we promoted the game as another way to get to know other interesting people.
A relevant short piece:
http://www.usgo.org/news/2013/11/yunxuan-li-on-how-his-la-school-club-pulled-in-100-teens/
And to give an idea of how a young outsider might look at it, a longer (older) piece: http://www.laweekly.com/1999-03-18/news/the-go-club/