Don't know if you'll see this but I'm enjoying this series 9 years later :)

why haven't more people liked this!? This refreshed my memory on the game really quickly!

I appreciate the support for the Wei-Qi Chess community-thank you! Regarding the game, it's indeed fascinating and often considered superior to other chess variants. However, the claim that the number of possible games exceeds the number of atoms in the universe seems exaggerated. I've yet to encounter any mathematician who can confirm this, concerning the Universe, let alone our galaxy alone, contains fewer atoms than possible Wei-Qi chess board game variations. Though I think it makes much more sense to only include only, all the actual possibly played games, or even, ever will be played, included, throughout all possible human existence. So,even if we consider technically possible, but unplayed variations, the comparison to the universe's atoms seems irrelevant. Why would it matter? Even if all the Billions of people, throughout all of history were included somehow, at playing what they would actually play, they are unlikely to play every conceivable nonsensical move in any serious or even casual games included. The total number of technically possible moves, especially those never played, doesn't seem to impact the game's enjoyment or its brilliance. After all, highlighting nonsensical moves and variations, especially those that have never and will never reasonably have a chance at being played, doesn't contribute to the game's value, regardless of the player's experience level. I hope this explanation is clear and comprehensive, and helpful to others.

Name it before it despans

14:53 : Muscle memory.

Your opening moves made him realised that you are not only a 2k

Straight to the point ! Great Content. Thank you !

It seems there is faster way to death rays: archeology building. Every time I built it, I got death ray in the first place.

One thing is good about exobots: It can colonize planets that your species can't. Unless your species has broad range of planet types that can live on. It is the case eventually but early game usually you need exobots.

Yes, monsters higher then low is just annoying. It should be balnced someway like no krakens closer then 10 jumps or something like that.

Actually toxic is relative. What is toxic to people, may be good for other creatures. But yes, there are radiculous traits for planets. For example heavy clouds on asteroids :D

Seriously, you should have learned how to play a bit before posting the first video. But overall - good work.

Are you still playing Go? I just wanted to say I really benefited a lot from your videos. Peace

excellent

Where can I play this game competitively and online?

Some of the best training videos / explanations I have ever seen on any subject. Superb explanations. Pity you haven't done more videos. I completely don't understand why you've had so few views. Thanks.

Strange positions...

Shouldn't it be the 5-3?

I heard that if white wants Sente on the keima approach with Keima response, he should do so immediately rather than doing the corner slide first. That way, black doesn't have the option to Tenuki first and a potential attack is less severe.

I feel this is one of those things that sounded a good idea to begin with, but then turned out to be not a good idea.

How would white respond to a low pincer at N17?

Yeet

I'd never heard of GNU go. Thanks for introducing me to it!

My buddy and I play on iPhone for 5 bucks a game

What?

Thank you for your instructions

At first, thank you very much for these videos, they are very helpful! :) I got a question at around: 4:04 Could you also play O17 instead of instead of O18? For me the shape looks similar to some you explained in previous videos? If not, what is the weakness?

Disco

Thank you for the vid. However, try to refrain from flitting the cursor about to illustrate your speech. It is impossible to ignore (due to the brain prioritizing sudden movement over intelluctual data) and is particularly aggravating in a Go tutorial where learning shape is so important. Imagine a school teacher rapidly wagging a finger inches in front of one's nose while explaining differential geometry. Simply indicate once, at moderate speed, the stone or group in question, or slowly encirlcle it, then lay the cursor aside until absolutely needed again. Please. For an example of good cursor management, watch a few vids of "Haylee's Live Go" on YT. Thanks again for taking the time to help us newbies.

20 mins and no pincer?? everyone knows that most feared move is the pincer :/

this will have counted! one move is enough to get full points for a resign, if no moves are played and one resigns the other gets 50

What about the 5-5 opening?

Great man.thanks

Just starting thank u

good vid but you speak in past tense which is annoying

Wei qi is amazing

based on alpha go and other high level bots, 4-4 is the best corner move, the 3-4 closely behind and the 3-3 is still playable. of course, at Kyu level, as long as you got awareness of the joseki, 5-3 and 5-4 are still playable.

Man you really deserved recognition. It's a shame you have stopped uploading. To see such a good channel go under the radar makes me genuinely upset. I hope that wherever you are right now you're okay man. Godspeed

A few remarks to make the perfect teaching a perfect video: you really do not need any music, it is very disturbing and doesn't ad anything; to u.let the cursor move a big ball is also not the best choice because it has the same size as the stones and it moves constantly and very fast. Because it has the form of a stone we try to make an image of the situation when you hold it even for a second on a place. In real time teaching we hold indeed a stone between our fingers but our brain is trained to see only a move as soon as the stone is placed somewhere. A solution would be a stone between two fingers, or maybe just a finger instead of the stone. That would make the perfect video: your voice is clear, language understandable for not native speakers, what you say is clear and to the point, the tempo is good, the level is consistent. To often instruction video's for beginners combine incredible simple things with statements without introducing the terms clearly. You do not use Japanese terms... although it makes it sounds more interesting, I think as you do is better: focus on the contain.....nevertheless, at the end it could be an option....just a few..

My favorite approach to 3x4 is S16 actually. 🤣

Nice. Thanks!

You have got to be by far the best go teacher on KZbin. You should do more videos!

these videos are wonderful. simple and clear. please, please do some more of these. =)

You deserve more subs

Ayyyyyyy! I'm super glad to hear you're going to make videos again! Also us viewers would love some PUBG videos!

One of the best go guides i've seen, very clear and enjoyable

*Literal Facepalm*

Do those move only work for the top right, or can they also work on the other corners of the board

I actually finished the game today....a magnificent experience. Just like back in 1998. Putting a building plan on a tree will not waste the tree..I usually command my braves to chop down the tree manually then click on the plan and they will place it next to the plan and eventually use it to consturct the building.

Thanks for the videos, one comment, eradicate the words "stuff and thing" from your vocabulary.