Good video, thank you. The 5 phases for openings of the video are the following. 1) Corners 2) Enclosures/ approach moves 3) Large extensions 4) Small extensions 5) Vertical moves (i.e. towards the centre).
Reeeally helpful video for higher kyus like me. In some of the videos, the questions can be disruptive to the flow of the video, but in this one the questions helped a lot in clarifying things. I think because they were always based on examples, it made them more useful.
A thousand thanks! I like the way you're responding to every (even basic and silly) question so thoroughly and attentively. I think you have a great atmosphere in your classroom. Loved the lecture. Keep uploading them, please :)
Also, the idea that if black takes upper right, white won’t immediately play the cross corner in bottom left. I love cross games so much but everyone keeps blocking them for me 😭
thanks man. These little details are the difference between having good solid foundations in which to fight or settle and having a lot of "invations" full with easily exploitable defects that will make you run and eventually get captued or crushed into a handful of points while your opponent was building a wall for huge influence. I always get invadded and lose the trades due to lack of coordination of my initial stones. or overextensions. thanks again, ill make sure your lesson will be put in use. Edit: Hahaha. Thank you again. I got promoted to 11k a few days ago, but the minuscle diff between 12k and 11k was enough to get a 10~ lose streak and i was losing all from the opening. Had not win a game to an 11k yet. I applied the lesson and omfg got 3/4 of the board for myself, solid. As usual, lost all fights, but still had leftover to win by 5.5. Else i would have won by 50 or so. Great lesson. now to really learn how to fight.
Thanks for the great lecture Nick! It's much appreciated as always for your continuation to record and put these videos up. I wish I could go to the Go Congress this year, but I'm in Alabama and don't have much money right now. I hope I can meet you next year though!
I often take tengen if white takes the corner. Top-right 4-4, bottom-left 3-3, Tengen. If white kicks the 3-3 it usually disrupts, although often you can take the other corner instead. Frequently I see opponents play the opposite corner, blocking this; although I'm not completely convinced taking Tengen isn't viable-it's at a disadvantage though: if I get the 3-3, the approach is one move behind; if I invade, I'm one move behind. Usually when I do this the game stops for about 3-5 minutes.
To the 5 phases I would add invasions. Sounds weird and I know this video is from 2013. Nowadays we see that 3-3 invasion all over the place, but I think even apart of that invasions are always a possibility, when one player goes for a really fast framework. Edit: Invasions are not really a phase, but an option (bad expression on my side). One player might choose to distrupt the opening phase and try to provoke a whole board fight or something, but I guess that is not traditional opening theory anymore.
This is definitely a noob question but why is playing in the center undesirable? I can understand the advantages of playing in corners but couldn’t you build center territory and then choose to extend outwards later?
You need very many stones in the center of the board to enclose any territory so it's very "expensive" as it will cost you many stones. Also so much can happen as you can be attacked from any side so it's almost impossible to start out from the center. It's always easier to get some solid corners or sides and then go inward
Good video, thank you. The 5 phases for openings of the video are the following.
1) Corners 2) Enclosures/ approach moves 3) Large extensions 4) Small extensions 5) Vertical moves (i.e. towards the centre).
Reeeally helpful video for higher kyus like me. In some of the videos, the questions can be disruptive to the flow of the video, but in this one the questions helped a lot in clarifying things. I think because they were always based on examples, it made them more useful.
A thousand thanks!
I like the way you're responding to every (even basic and silly) question so thoroughly and attentively. I think you have a great atmosphere in your classroom.
Loved the lecture. Keep uploading them, please :)
"Once we invade the opening is over"
Oh my sweet summer (pre AI) child.
0:32 "I have a cold, i'm sick, but i'm still holding this public lecture."
Oh, my sweet summer (pre covid) child...
Also, the idea that if black takes upper right, white won’t immediately play the cross corner in bottom left. I love cross games so much but everyone keeps blocking them for me 😭
thanks man. These little details are the difference between having good solid foundations in which to fight or settle and having a lot of "invations" full with easily exploitable defects that will make you run and eventually get captued or crushed into a handful of points while your opponent was building a wall for huge influence.
I always get invadded and lose the trades due to lack of coordination of my initial stones. or overextensions. thanks again, ill make sure your lesson will be put in use.
Edit: Hahaha. Thank you again. I got promoted to 11k a few days ago, but the minuscle diff between 12k and 11k was enough to get a 10~ lose streak and i was losing all from the opening. Had not win a game to an 11k yet.
I applied the lesson and omfg got 3/4 of the board for myself, solid. As usual, lost all fights, but still had leftover to win by 5.5. Else i would have won by 50 or so. Great lesson. now to really learn how to fight.
Thanks for the great lecture Nick! It's much appreciated as always for your continuation to record and put these videos up. I wish I could go to the Go Congress this year, but I'm in Alabama and don't have much money right now. I hope I can meet you next year though!
Not your turn, Dan!
thank you for making these videos!
2024 here
phase 1: play 4-4
phase 1b: invade with 3-3
I often take tengen if white takes the corner. Top-right 4-4, bottom-left 3-3, Tengen. If white kicks the 3-3 it usually disrupts, although often you can take the other corner instead. Frequently I see opponents play the opposite corner, blocking this; although I'm not completely convinced taking Tengen isn't viable-it's at a disadvantage though: if I get the 3-3, the approach is one move behind; if I invade, I'm one move behind.
Usually when I do this the game stops for about 3-5 minutes.
It would help to understand your comment if you used whole sentences. Subject, object, etc...
To the 5 phases I would add invasions. Sounds weird and I know this video is from 2013. Nowadays we see that 3-3 invasion all over the place, but I think even apart of that invasions are always a possibility, when one player goes for a really fast framework.
Edit: Invasions are not really a phase, but an option (bad expression on my side). One player might choose to distrupt the opening phase and try to provoke a whole board fight or something, but I guess that is not traditional opening theory anymore.
You were just going through a phase
Great video again... too bad Dan keeps trolling you alot xD
I'm loving this series, but my OCD is killing me watching when you put the stones slightly off of the points!
you should see in pro games when they do scoring. Stones all over the place. lol
I just googled OCD and.. Yeah.. It seems that I have it. Thanks I guess
@@TheHamoody100 Something like that in the DSMV has to be diagnosed by a professional... it's unwise to just google something and assume you have it
@@treehann
Sure
Great lecture.
Thanks for sharing.
great stuff
This is definitely a noob question but why is playing in the center undesirable? I can understand the advantages of playing in corners but couldn’t you build center territory and then choose to extend outwards later?
Stfu
You need very many stones in the center of the board to enclose any territory so it's very "expensive" as it will cost you many stones. Also so much can happen as you can be attacked from any side so it's almost impossible to start out from the center. It's always easier to get some solid corners or sides and then go inward
Dear Nick Sibicky: in the opening at around 26:00, are the (5, 4) extensions and enclosures also playable? Why/whynot?
(on move 5)
I'm from NYC, when can I come for a class?
Awesome video~~
Nice lecture
In traditional go, everyone plays 3-4.
I need subtitle for subscrible
Nick “sic” Sibicky episode