Duolingo-style Go Course

Today PlayGo.gg is launching a free, Duolingo-style course for Go! This course covers topics from complete beginner up to ~9 kyu.

We believe this is a big step toward bringing millions of new people into Go. Have friends or family who don’t play? Please share this with them!

Would love to hear any feedback as well!

Link: playgo.gg/course

Matthew, co-founder of playgo.gg

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Which languages can I learn?

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English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Spanish, Vietnamese, French.

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AFAIK Duolingo extended its service to some maths, music, and Chess.

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Yes! Their chess course has 10M daily active users. Our course was inspired by that.

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Nice course! But this should count, imo. It’s one of a few positions in the 9 kyu intro course where the tip recommends something a bit worse than something else flagged as wrong. I realize some of that rule-following stuff may be the training wheels part for DDK learners. But if the strongest move is wrong, either the answer key or the position should be fixed if you ask me.

Other such positions

This is the new joseki though.

B is recommended, but A is stronger than its point value for a couple of reasons, which may make it stronger than B, in my view.

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“Most popular” – really? More popular than pro, and even more popular than free? :open_mouth:

And that’s quite a hefty price, IMO.

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