Complexity explodes in your face.
That’s right it!
I can understand all different motivations, but I’m afraid they mean nothing to the viewer that doesn’t already know the game.
The only message that I think can be clear for everybody is “so simple, yet so complex”. It’s a riddle but also a sort of intuitive concept. We all just know that something can be “so simple, yet so complex”. Not just Go.
I’ve been watching “12 week miracle” on YouTube. The basic idea is to take two beginners and make them KBA 7kyu in 12 weeks. The mentors are Cho Yeonwoo 1p and Kim Mansoo 8p.
This is the first Nick Sibicky pro review video in about eighteen months. I recommend you savour it, in case it’s another year and a half until the next one.
Hoping to make this into a series where I review both KataGo games and my own games on GoQuest, I think there’s a lot of instructive tsumego and endgame tesujis that come up naturally on 9x9