New article! This time Jae will give you an American’s impression of Hikaru No Go!
This article might well be a good reason to watch all of the episodes of this wonderful anime yet another time and get another serving of Go motivation. 
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A selection of the best moments from the interview with Artem Kachanovski 2p 
that was recorded on February 6, 2022.
We realize that watching complete live stream records is too much, so we try to squeeze them into bite-sized pieces for your convenience.
Subscribe to our new English YouTube channel so that you don’t miss anything interesting. 
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Hanezeki is one of the rarest and most incredible situations in Go. My favorite episode!
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Here are some of our future plans! 
More than 200 people have taken the recent survey. There were lots of kind words and reasonable suggestions there! Thank you so much!
We’ve made some adjustments in our plans that you can find on our new roadmap page:
Roadmap – Go Magic
Many of you wrote that the platform is great but there aren’t enough courses and problems. True that! 
However you must know that we are a very small team and we don’t have any sponsors, so the speed of new content creation can’t be too high. However, we do everything we can to make it faster. For example we’ve decided to reduce the number of visual effects in our future courses which should have a nice effect on the speed of filming and editing.
There were mixed opinions about the remake of our beginner courses, so we decided to go for a compromise. We are not going to reshoot them all right away. We’ll do it gradually, alternating with other courses.
We already started working on the remake of the course with the rules — it will now turn into a complete introduction to the game, not just with the rules but with answers to all most commonly asked beginner questions. We hope to make the best introduction to Go ever! 
After that Vadim will create another course. What will it be about? You decide! Stay tuned for the next poll coming soon!
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There are three new skill branches in the Skill Tree! Hurry up and solve them!
https://gomagic.org/skills
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Go Magic summertime sales! 
Enter the promo code SUMMERGO and get a 30% discount till July 15, 2022. Remember that you can extend your premium membership in advance while the code is valid. 
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Please welcome the debut work from the new teacher Alexey Nechaev 4D, who executed a completely different approach to making a course: three short lessons on simple tesujis in the form of a screencast!
https://gomagic.org/courses/how-tesuji-works
Check it out and let us know if we should use this video format in our future courses! 
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There are two new skill branches in the Skill Tree! Hurry up and solve them!
https://gomagic.org/skills
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Tips on how to up your game from BenKyo. 
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Our Skill Tree keeps growing! Three new skills are ready to be mastered:
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A new article from our regular contributor Jae Matson. This time it’s about the recent pro qualification tournament in the US. Who are the new pros? Did everything go smoothly? 
Read it here:
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One of our subscribers Gerard Slooven from Holland has translated his own article about the relation between Go and Buddhism into English. Here is the result!
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Atari Go is not just a mini-game for kids
A game of capturing stones that starts with a crosscut might look too simple. However our team thinks that this training game can be very useful to a wide range of players up to 15 or even 10k!
Beginner Go players need to learn to spot an atari and play solidly — that’s what this mini-game is recommended for. Because it can quickly teach you some basic Go techniques. And besides it allows you to practice a crosscut. It is a very common shape in Go that even 10k players will often get wrong.
We made a short lesson on atari Go that will soon be part of the updated Go rules course:
We’ve got plans to make an atari-Go bot on our website but for now you can play this game in Hactar Go Lite app (android only).
Tell us about your experience: do you use Atari Go when you teach beginners?
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Atari go pros
The goal is easier to understand.
Atari go cons
Capturing stones is not the goal of the go game so can lead to confusion.
Hey y’all, Stanislaw Frejlak 1p 
is coming to visit us and he’s bringing some courses for Go Magic with him. There are lots of cool topics in his suitcase, so you’ve got some tough choices to make here!
- Ko — Take control over the chaos! (Stanislaw’s favorite topic)
- Endgame — How to search for the biggest move and count move values precisely (this feels like a sequel to Vadim’s course)
- Extensions — Protect your stones by safely extending, nuances of many common shapes
- Moyo — How to build, invade, and defend
- Sente exchanges — Why they are bad for you, and what are the exceptions
- Peeps — Connect or fight back?
- Sacrifices — Ars Moriendi, or How to stick in opponents throat
- The sources of mistakes — Emotional traps and cognitive errors
Stanislaw himself would like to male a course about endgame or ko but the choice is yours. If there is a topic that you’d really want to become a course, go ahead and vote for it! 
Alright, go ahead and vote for two topics to give us a better idea of your preferences.
https://forms.gle/buCRVbn99nPcpZJX7
P.S. Our Discord polls bot doesn’t want to function so this time the vote will happen through Google Form.
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New achievement unlocked: 5000 registered users! 
In order to celebrate we announce a week of massive discounts on courses and memberships!
Enter the promo code MAGIC5000 until October 24 and get a 40% discount 
P.S. If you already have a premium membership, you can use the discount to extend it.
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The improved and expanded Go rules course!
Making Go more popular is one of the most important missions of our project. So we tried making this course modern, fun and clear enough, so that anyone could play and finish a game on their own after completing it. Did we get it right? Did we miss anything? 
Please leave your comments and we’ll try to fix all the bugs quickly so that this course could be rightfully considered the best!
We’ll publish an interactive page with Go rules in the nearest future as well, for those who prefer reading to watching videos. Plus we’ve made an atari Go bot, so you’ll be able to practice capturing stones on our website soon as well.
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We’ve released the final skills for the School of Wizards! 
Go Problems | Go Puzzles | Tsumego — Go Skills
Both this skill tree and the first one will keep growing with new problems and we are already beginning to work on the next “Magical Academy” tree (8–1 kyu). You can take a look at its structure on the website.
Some stats
There are over 3000 problems on our platform already!
2270 problems in the Skill Tree and ~1000 problems in the courses.
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Stanislaw Frejlak has successfully reached Batumi! As you can see from the photo, sea air and khinkali make people happy! 
Work on the new course “Ko — take control over the chaos” (the winner of the last survey) is fully underway, but we also plan to shoot a short interview in the style of 15 questions to a Go professional. Please leave your questions in the comments, we will choose the best ones and ask them to Stanislaw. 
P.S. The previous video with 15 questions to Alexander Dinerstein: How to Become a Pro? — 15 Nerdy Questions to a Professional Go Player | Alexander Dinerstein [DUB] - YouTube
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