New player with no idea what to do just wants some help

[tonybe]

Welcome back! Like several folks above, I would recommend a refresher on the HOW TO PLAY GO section of OGS:

Play Go at online-go.com! | OGS

Once you’ve gone through that, feel free to read through these 4 articles I wrote which are aimed at beginners:

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES: Introduction: Making Sense of Go

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 25 KYU Introduction: Making Sense of Go When I first started learning about go, I did it in the slowest possible way - I was isolated, intimidated, confused, and stubborn. Lacking any local friends to play with, and too embarrassed to play strangers on the internet, I beat my head against the GnuGo AI for a long time - never able to understand why I was consistently losing by 30-50 points. I read books and articles about go - I watche…

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES: Part 1: Sente and Gote

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 25 KYU Part 1: Sente and Gote Welcome back! In my introduction to the series, I tried to give the beginning player a broad overview of the 19x19 Go game. In this section, I am going to drill down to the nitty gritty of one element of the game, and I could think of nothing more fundamental than the paired concepts of sente and gote. Loosely translated, the terms mean initiative and response, and once you understand how these concepts p…

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES: Part 2: Settling Your Stones

19 X 19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 25 KYU Part 2: Settling Your Stones [A quick disclaimer for any readers who are SDK and up: this series was written by a DDK for TPKs, with the goal of making the process of “losing their first 100 games quickly” less confusing and more productive. As you read it, you may become concerned at the number of important concepts I’m leaving out, or the crudity of analysis used in the examples. If you find yourself wanting to fill those …

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES: Part 3: Playing a Balanced Opening

19x19 FOR BEGINNERS SERIES THINGS I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 25 KYU PART 3: PLAYING A BALANCED OPENING [A quick disclaimer for any readers who are SDK and up: this series was written by a DDK for TPKs, with the goal of making the process of “losing their first 100 games quickly” less confusing and more productive. I say this because you may become concerned at all the crucial elements of the opening I’m about to leave out of the story. All through this article, I am going to encourage TPKs to a…

good luck!