Hello, and thank you very much for the videos wich helped me to improve my go.
I have a question about the answer given in the video 4. If white approach the black corner with a keima kakari isn’t it a bit passive of black to play on the 4-2 point ? I was told that black should make a leaning attack, playing a tsuke above the approaching stone so he can attack the withe group on the right side.
Obviously, w has advantages on the upper-right area. W has 4 stones while b has 2, and w’s upper-left corner is very solid too.
In Chinese go theory, there were “ten golden rules”. The tenth rule is: look for peace, avoid fighting in an isolated or weak situation.
When you want to fight, you must fight at the place which you have advantages. In this situation, b wants to fight at the lower half of the board, not the upper half.
If b’s upper-right corner can’t make a life locally, w will chase b and get influence in the center.
So to play on the 4-2 point is not passive. It’s a proper move.
One idea. You might consider commenting a kyu game — say around 6-7 k. I think stronger players could benefit as well from your review, and, of course, the kyu players.
There were thousands of wrong strategies, you can’t learn all of them. But you can learn the right one. My advice is: learn the top players’ games. At the beginning you may not know why they played like that. But after some time, you will get the feelings of the shape, the method of calculation, and the way how to arrange the whole board.
Thanks so much for these videos. The game commentaries are excellent. The games themselves are exciting ones, and your commentary brings out the meaning of the fighting. Seeing the tesuji’s emerging from the contest (including the possibilities that were not actually played) is very helpful for someone trying to understand how to combine strategy and tactics.
Your love of the game comes thru very clearly. In your tribute to Shuko you praise his contributions to go in China. I think your English language videos are also making a fine contribution to the development of the game in the West.
A fantastic analysis of Huang Longshi v Jiang Tiyuan. These old Chinese games are too often neglected by modern players, but these great masters of the past can teach us a lot about powerful attacking and strategy. Thank you and please produce more videos!
Thanks for creating these game reviews. I really enjoyed the way you presented the game. I look forward to watching more of your reviews of the greatest Go games.
Thank you for your videos.
I finally discovered a nice way to follow go lessons, and to appreciate famous go games (as Ohira-sensei would say
I found your comments quite balanced: not too much nor too few; not too detailed nor too laconic.
Quite perfect for my level (about 4-kyu).
I will surely promote your site among my go-mates…
PS: if am I not too curious: where do you live and what is your level ?
I live in China. I’m not a pro, Go is my habit, not my profession. I think I’m pretty good among amateur players
Recently, I found teaching is more interesting than playing, so I got a part-time job, now I’m teaching in a go school.
I did a lot of homework for my commentaries, and my commentaries also based on many pro players’ research achievements. So from the point of content, I can say the level of my commentaries is “absolutely professional”
Thank you so much for my new favorite website! The commented games are excellent, making difficult things easy to understand even for weak players like me. I also have to praise you for picking such interesting games to comment, I think my favorite is Go Seigen vs Fujisawa Kuranosuke, but they are all great.
Your hard work and effort is highly appreciated, please keep it up!
Thank you very much for putting your time and effort into producing such nice Go videos for the internet Go community.
My favourites are the “Greatest Games Ever Played” series, but all of your work is interesting and useful.
Your video of the sunset in Tài Shān was nice; I haven’t been to that mountain (yet) but I climbed Huángshān and toured the nearby area at the end of 2007.
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thank you so much. and i’m a big fan. i would like to play baduk with you one day. on tygem or kgs. if you have cyberoro im sure i can arrange to play on there too. i feel playing you would benefit me much. and to see how you play is another form of pleasure. then seeing you comment on other’s play. but thank you much.
I like what you are doing. Your videos are very informative. Thank you so much for the explanations, and keep up the good work =)
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I’ve been looking for something just like this website. Thanks for doing this!
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One of the best go sites.
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Those are the best go commentaries I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched all of them and can’t wait to see more. Awesome work!
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Hello, and thank you very much for the videos wich helped me to improve my go.
I have a question about the answer given in the video 4. If white approach the black corner with a keima kakari isn’t it a bit passive of black to play on the 4-2 point ? I was told that black should make a leaning attack, playing a tsuke above the approaching stone so he can attack the withe group on the right side.
I apologize for my poor English.
Thank You.
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countsheep Reply:
November 26th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Obviously, w has advantages on the upper-right area. W has 4 stones while b has 2, and w’s upper-left corner is very solid too.
In Chinese go theory, there were “ten golden rules”. The tenth rule is: look for peace, avoid fighting in an isolated or weak situation.
When you want to fight, you must fight at the place which you have advantages. In this situation, b wants to fight at the lower half of the board, not the upper half.
If b’s upper-right corner can’t make a life locally, w will chase b and get influence in the center.
So to play on the 4-2 point is not passive. It’s a proper move.
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One idea. You might consider commenting a kyu game — say around 6-7 k. I think stronger players could benefit as well from your review, and, of course, the kyu players.
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countsheep Reply:
November 26th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
There were thousands of wrong strategies, you can’t learn all of them. But you can learn the right one. My advice is: learn the top players’ games. At the beginning you may not know why they played like that. But after some time, you will get the feelings of the shape, the method of calculation, and the way how to arrange the whole board.
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excellent
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this is an excellent web site…
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Thanks so much for these videos. The game commentaries are excellent. The games themselves are exciting ones, and your commentary brings out the meaning of the fighting. Seeing the tesuji’s emerging from the contest (including the possibilities that were not actually played) is very helpful for someone trying to understand how to combine strategy and tactics.
Your love of the game comes thru very clearly. In your tribute to Shuko you praise his contributions to go in China. I think your English language videos are also making a fine contribution to the development of the game in the West.
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A fantastic analysis of Huang Longshi v Jiang Tiyuan. These old Chinese games are too often neglected by modern players, but these great masters of the past can teach us a lot about powerful attacking and strategy. Thank you and please produce more videos!
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I love this site, your videos are very well done and your commentary is concise and extremely informative.
Thank you for all of your work
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Thanks for creating these game reviews. I really enjoyed the way you presented the game. I look forward to watching more of your reviews of the greatest Go games.
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Thank you for your videos.
I finally discovered a nice way to follow go lessons, and to appreciate famous go games (as Ohira-sensei would say
I found your comments quite balanced: not too much nor too few; not too detailed nor too laconic.
Quite perfect for my level (about 4-kyu).
I will surely promote your site among my go-mates…
PS: if am I not too curious: where do you live and what is your level ?
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countsheep Reply:
November 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Thank you for promote my site
I live in China. I’m not a pro, Go is my habit, not my profession. I think I’m pretty good among amateur players
Recently, I found teaching is more interesting than playing, so I got a part-time job, now I’m teaching in a go school.
I did a lot of homework for my commentaries, and my commentaries also based on many pro players’ research achievements. So from the point of content, I can say the level of my commentaries is “absolutely professional”
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Thanks for your videos. Very clear thougths.
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Thank you for your videos. Your comments are great. Your english is ok enough so that we can understand it. Really a good work, congratulations.
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Thank you very for your go videos. I have gotten hours of enjoyment and instruction from them.
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hi! can you add rss feed to track new videos?
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countsheep Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
It’s more convenient to subscribe my newsletter:
http://www.gocommentary.com/subscribe.html
The website already has rss feed. It’s on the lower-right corner, the link “Entries and Comments”.
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Thank you very much for making this site!
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Thank you so much for my new favorite website! The commented games are excellent, making difficult things easy to understand even for weak players like me. I also have to praise you for picking such interesting games to comment, I think my favorite is Go Seigen vs Fujisawa Kuranosuke, but they are all great.
Your hard work and effort is highly appreciated, please keep it up!
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give your website in youtube description, it will help : )
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countsheep Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
thx for your advice:)
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very very good website
so much apriciated by many go players, thnx
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Thank you very much for putting your time and effort into producing such nice Go videos for the internet Go community.
My favourites are the “Greatest Games Ever Played” series, but all of your work is interesting and useful.
Your video of the sunset in Tài Shān was nice; I haven’t been to that mountain (yet) but I climbed Huángshān and toured the nearby area at the end of 2007.
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Interpreting dead philosophers. ,
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Thank you very much for these awesome videos! Keep up the good work, they are very fun to watch and learn.
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I have updated my guest book program and now one can reply on any exist comments. So I can reply your comments in time in the future.
Thanks for your compliments, thank you so much.
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I get this error when I try to subscribe:
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countsheep Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Sorry I got something wrong with my website and I’m trying to fix that.
I have added your email manually and you will receive future newsletters.
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Thank you for this very cool videos!
Please go on!
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thank you alot for spending your time for these wonderful videos.
This realy helps and is fun to watch.
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thank you so much. and i’m a big fan. i would like to play baduk with you one day. on tygem or kgs. if you have cyberoro im sure i can arrange to play on there too. i feel playing you would benefit me much. and to see how you play is another form of pleasure. then seeing you comment on other’s play. but thank you much.
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So whens the next video coming out? been watnig for an eternity…
And thanks for a grea site, and greetings from Finland!
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