Interactive Go lessons based on real game positions

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Hello,

I am an amateur Go player from Japan and recently created a small website with interactive Go lessons.

The lessons are based on real game positions and focus on practical thinking during games rather than memorizing patterns.

Each lesson uses an SGF board so you can follow the moves step by step.

Lesson list:

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

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Neat stuff!

I see that you are using BesoGo. I wrote that software. Let me know if you need any support, questions, feature requests.

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Amazing!

I never expected to meet the creator of BesoGo here!
Thank you very much for creating it. I really appreciate being able to use it.
It’s a great system and I’m very happy with it.

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tried the software and found it very confusing no instructions on how to get a lesson and when puts a stone down nothing happensi no instruction or advice what the point very dissappointed with this would not but it for sure – needs major work forbegineers to use

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Thank you for trying it and for the feedback.

These lessons are not played by placing stones directly on the board.
You move through the lesson using the arrow keys.

In other words, it works more like stepping through an SGF file than solving an interactive puzzle.

I understand that this may be confusing at first, especially for beginners.
I should probably make the instructions clearer.

Thank you again for pointing this out.

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Scrolling with the mousewheel over the board also works to advance through the SGF files

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You’ve got a mistranslation in “Bad Probes”, nozoki is “Peep”.

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Thank you for pointing that out.
I will fix the wording.

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i see what you are talking about now – its for importing files of games etc to have them show you what you did worng — i see - well thats great for those that know how to do that – as many beginerrs here don’t - so your program might be great for advanced players but for beginners it well isn’t what is needed by the host of players that need help at the bottom maybe having already sample games loaded already and then you would go throught them might be an idea for us bottom feeders

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Thank you for your comment.

Actually, the lessons already include sample positions.
You don’t need to import any SGF files.

You can simply open a lesson and use the arrow keys to go through the moves and explanations step by step.

These lessons are intended for beginners to intermediate players who want to study basic shapes and ideas.

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i still can’t find any help to find these sample positions, and i have had tow other friends of mine try the same software and thye to have had difficulty getting started – all three of us are 25k to 69k players, so maybe you could post a set by set guide to get started

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It would be useful to categorize lessons. Some are targeted at beginners, 20k and weaker like “basic life and death”. The next one, “attacking stones”, perhaps for 10k-20k. Others like “how to break shape” are more elaborate, perhaps 5k-1k?
I didn’t look in detail but anyway indicating rough levels would help the student find out which lessons are most appropriate.

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Thank you very much for your valuable feedback!
I will address it later, so please wait for a while.

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Today I finished writing “Endgame Basics.”

I referred to material by the Japanese professional Go player Cho Chikun while preparing this lesson.
I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

If you have any comments or suggestions, I would be happy to hear them.

That’s all for today. Good night.

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Nice!

Intuitively, I expected mouse scroll up to go forward. I’m wondering how many people would expert scroll up or scroll down to move forward through the moves.

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Up does go forward here, on a windows touchpad. Are you on a mac?

I agree that a toggle can be useful because up to a few years ago there was a discrepancy between the two OS’es: on a mac you scroll down by ‘pushing the page up’, and on windows you ‘pull the viewer down’.

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Never!

(I didn’t even know about that difference, we learn something every day :slight_smile: )

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On both Windows and Linux, it’s just setting that you can toggle either way

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Good morning.

I have temporarily added a level range to each lesson.

However, please treat these only as rough guidelines. I have spent most of my Go life as a dan-level player, so the level indications may not perfectly match the experience of kyu players.

If you have any suggestions or feedback, I would be happy to hear them.

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Today I finished writing a lesson on capturing races.

I referred to material by the Japanese professional player Rin Kaiho.
I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

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