Great post and very relevant! As a Chess player entering the world of GO I’m used to a plethora of online learning resources and that’s a bit hard to find for GO. I personally downloaded the amazing book by Co Chicun and then do analysis of my games on this site as well as AI Sensei and visit resources like Go Magic (great site!), but it’s still difficult.
Structured learning apps/portals (an analogous Chess site would be Chess King) seem far and few between?
Wow just checked this out. Impressive!!! I had no idea this existed. I’m going to start working slowly through your timeline of instructions and knowledge. It looks REALLY well put together! Beginners owe you a a real thanks @SoumyaK4
This actually evolved from my study notes of self learning journey from beginner to ~1dan.
The time frames you see in the guide are roughly the time it took me. Over the years I’ve tried to improve it as my understanding deepened.
You can check out https://soumyak4.in for more go projects I’ve made.
But for starters, the Roadmap + BadukTube is good enough for self study.
But a very important note: You should often ask stronger players for your game’s review. That’s pretty priceless help, and your understanding of your own pro/con will help you improve better.
Thank you! This is invaluable! Coming from Chess the opening phase is daunting as the landscape on the board is a vastly different scenario. In Chess it’s a full board of pieces in defined positions. In GO it’s an EMPTY landscape with a gazillion possiblities! So it’s a completely different mindset for me. Also I can see from analysis of a few of my games that it’s very easy to make blunders that hand huge advantage to one’s opponent early on in the game, and it’s then extremely difficult to them claw back that advantage. For me as a beginner these missteps are often not patently obvious. Your suggestion of getting syrong players to comment on one’s games makes great sense to me as the katago analysis are mathematical in nature (points gain/loss or %win/loss) but doesn’t attach insight into the what and why of a position or move.
