Hi I’m a new player and it’s been about two minths I’ve started getting the hang of it, I’m t about 25 kyu i wamt someone to teach me so i learn and understand this beautiful game better! I am absolutely okay with correspondence games, english is not a problem I’m fluent in it, i live in GMT 5:30+ timezone, and i would prefer multiple teaching games.
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Hello thelastnetizen, and welcome to OGS!
Absolutely do not want discourage you from teaching games, quite the contrary! I think it is the best way for newer players to learn.
That said, I would still suggest two ideas for your consideration:
- Try playing at least another few handful of games first. Unless you played elsewhere also, you seem to be barely past your 5th game. I am sure you understand the rules already, but training ones eyes to recognize ataris, and getting used to the weird way stones act near the borders simply takes time for everyone, and it is hard to grasp deeper strategies until one is at least reasonably used to recognizing groups in (or almost in) atari. Not much a teacher can do about that, it just takes a bit of time to train the eyes.
- Do not get too hung up on getting a dan teacher just yet. I cannot stress enough how long the learning curve of Go actually is. Also dan teachers are not easy to come by, but a newer player can learn A LOT even from a strong DDK player. Sometimes it might actually be even better, because those players still remember the actual hurdles of beginnings. I am sure an enthusiastic strong DDK or SDK player can offer you a lot of insight to start with.
Best of luck!
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Oh okay! Thanks for the advice! It’s just…i feel like endlessly grinding games might not work out for me since i have a hectic student life, so i thought it would’ve made more sense for someone to already pick out my problems rather than me playing twenty games to figure that out
But again I’m quite new so idrk what would be best for me, what do you think i should do? With a hectic
Yes i play on badukpop too I’m 16k there. Infact i used to be afraid of ogs. Just started like two days ago after only being on
Before badukpop i was on hduo fun go app and there i learned the basics for almost 10 months but at the time i d to just guess without understanding anything so i don’t really think i should count that
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Absolutely agree, the usual cliché (but probably not bad) advice is to quickly lose one’s first 50 gaes, and then start learning. If you played a bunch on badukpop, that’s great and quick way to get at least some of the basic experience. I thought you were much newer player judging from just the few games I saw in your profile.
Unless you are planning to seriously devote your life to Go or pursue it as a carrer my usual advice is to just figure out what is most fun for you, and learn that way. Otherwise it will soon stop being a hobby, and you might lose interest.
- Finding teaching games is absolutely great! Realistically you won’t probably find a dan player to teach you for free, but as I said, I think even 10-11k or SDK player can have A LOT to offer if they like teaching. Consider asking in the chat on the main site, it is more lively there usually.
- I liked watching Go videos with commentary. I watched much more games than I actually played when I was starting out, and learned that way.
- Some people like doing tsumego (go puzzles)
- If you can find a real club near you, even better probably.
- Then there are of course interactive tutorials, boooks… We have a lot of resources listed here if you get curious: online-go.com/docs/other-go-resources
No idea 
Reaching dan level within one year is extremely rare. Most casual players don’t get there at all, but as long as it’s fun, who cares…
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Thanks a lot!! I learned so much from you
Haha i ofcourse don’t expect dan level, i just think they’re kinda really cool and have never played against one it’s like they’re some kinda Dumbledore? Yeah that’s why i was really curious about playing against one
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The AI revolution has given us access to very strong opponents to play with if you want to test.
If you like to stay playing with humans, you can try the OGS ladders but there is only correspondence settings there, no quick live game.
Sweet! I’m gonna try ladders! Thanks
Also, if you would like to try playing un-ranked games against strong / Dan level bots there are a few options outside of OGS. One nice thing about playing against these bots is - there are no time controls, so you can take minutes, or hours, or days and play at your own pace.
KATAGO (bonus: allows infinite un-do’s so if something didn’t work, you can go back any number of moves and try something else)
COSUMI
Cheers
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Thanks will check it out!!