Beginners are often advised not to bother learning joseki, and broadly this is good advice, but those 4 that I listed above are trivial to learn and the situation happens so often that why not make it easier for yourself is what I think about those.
My feeling is that with a human teacher and corners-sides-centre a person learns better on 19x19 than 13x13. Somehow 13x13 seems like the worst of both worlds, though that’s just my opinion.
This! Just ask, here in the forums, it will be astonishing if you don’t get one…
i suck on a 9x9 i just dont like it but i recomend stating out on that and move up to a 13x13 board then try the 19x19 i started out with the 19x19 board had no other board to play on and i had onl y the booklet to help me the stuff i learned i viewed on youtube and looked on line the library may have some books that may help youi do fairly good on the 19x19 board depending on who im playing with the people that play on here or way better then the ones i play in real life so if you plan on playing on here you will lose a lot of games brfore you start winning
This doesn’t really god away. Even at low dan you just kind barely know what to do “in most situations”:
And from what I’ve seen in professional games, the review often says “I wasn’t expecting that”. I hear that a lot in pair go when they go in the back and say “ok well they only played one of the moves we expected…”