Please help me my people.
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Do some of the tutorials. (Look in the resources list on the main site)
After that play many games. Don’t hope to understand much, be patient it’s difficult when you start. Play with other beginners to have some chances to win (good for fun). Don’t ask for theory or tactics too much the first stages you ll have to do it yourself.
Ah yes and… welcome in the crazy world of go.
Watch Hikaru no go if you haven’t yet, for fun. Intense anime inspired by the professional go world.
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I found the intro courses on go magic to give me enough confidence to play some games. Then playing a bunch got me to around where I am now.
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That’s nice. then it simple: play more like some dozens. Only valuable advice yet in my opinion.
If you have a question you can post a link of the game here and we can answer you. (Please game finished only, and I advise one you lost better)
Have fun!
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Welcome! I’ve been trying to help beginners wrap their heads around this game for a while.
Here’s a post I wrote on the forum recently where I introduce some basic concepts on a 13x13 board
Also, I’ve posted a longer 19x19 FOR BEGINNERS series here, and I encourage you to try them out, and see if they help. It’s a lot of reading, but here are links to the first 3
If you enjoy them, I’d be happy to point you to more
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Welcome to Go!
I think this could train you basic skills
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Take a look at this
The one thing that helped me to get over my anxiety about having to learn everything (do a billion life and death problems, memorize lots of joseki, read 10 moves ahead every move, count endgame, etc) was to be told that I don’t have to do all of that.
If I just got good enough at the parts and things I do enjoy (tesuji, honte and common sequences), then I can beat my opponent by ensuring I create conditions to ensure those happen in my games and avoid the parts I don’t enjoy.
Like how some players love endgame and essentially force the game to be in the endgame by move 80, while others love fighting and the midgame happens from move 10 to move 200…
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You learn a lot from your opponents anyway. But having something to share is quite a bonus.
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Welcome to OGS!
My tip is to simply: play, play, play, and play more games ^^
Getting better comes with experience, learning the ropes usually requires hundreds of games, and getting to the level where you win more games than you lose might even need thousands of games worth of experience.
Experience really helps, because the way we humans learn goes like this: we try something new and it doesn’t work, opponents punish us for those mistakes, we try again and adjust a little bit what we tried, and we get punished in some other way.
Then, eventually you’ll start recognising patterns, you see your opponents also trying something new, and then you remember “hey i once tried something similar too but my opponent played here and my shape completely collapsed, i wonder if this opponents shape will also collapse if i now do the same thing that was done against me”
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