Nick Sibicky Go Lecture

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Nick Sibicky

Күн бұрын

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@cptazstudios7952 4 жыл бұрын

No one mentioned Michael Redmond... that makes me sad

@jordanrozum 4 жыл бұрын

Just last night I watched an episode of Hikaru no Go in which Sai tells Hikaru to not play the moves like a puppet, but to instead "feel the flow of the stones". Today, I hear you give the same advice in this video for a weaker player observing a game played at a much higher level. I think the universe is trying to tell me to review a pro game . . .

@vasundarakrishnan4093 3 жыл бұрын

Me:Just turned 15 kyu in ogs KZbin: It is time for this video

@kiraPh1234k 4 жыл бұрын

"How many of you here are 15k +/-5 stones?" This sounds like a cold reading "psychic" question, and was asked in a ddk class, no?

@jojojo8835 2 жыл бұрын

I recommend watching the NHK cup go tournament games- they include a live review by pros, playing out variations to explain the implications of each move. I don’t speak Japanese, but If you know a few go terms like gote and sente you’ll get the gist of it.

@DanielDugovic 4 жыл бұрын

This video was made for me! 15-kyu represent!

@tomastelensky-vlog8723 3 жыл бұрын

These videos are very valuable, thanks Nick!!! I enjoy them very much, your passion makes you a great teacher.

@Arphemius 4 жыл бұрын

19:35 CDC approved elbow-cough.

@Algernon7 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man that banter at the beginner hits differently nowadays. I remember making jokes about coronavirus too, and then shit hit the fan.

@maiguelguti6818 Жыл бұрын

Your conclusion is fantastic! Never though about teachers that way

@nosamnosam123 4 жыл бұрын

At move 6, AI does prefer the Shusaku kosumi over D6, interestingly enough. It even slightly prefers C15 over responding in the top left.

@Yotanido 4 жыл бұрын

20:35 Leela prefers the kosumi by a very minor margin. Next best is approaching the top-right corner, and then the knights move. They are incredibly close, though. Might as well be equal

@aaronsmith8699 2 жыл бұрын

New player here, how do you read the result of a game? Like when it says W+R or B+2.5. is that White won due to resign and Black won by 2.5 points?

@sebastianbal1008 Жыл бұрын

late answer but yes

@ignamax08 4 жыл бұрын

How to understand pro games? Easy! Step one, drink lot of alcohol Step two, skip fuseki, thats for noobs all 3 3 invasions Step three, ask yourself why nobody got territory Step four, say gg easy after seeing last move :-)

@BenMojo. 15 күн бұрын

I learned a lot, thank you

@Disappointment42 4 жыл бұрын

yo Nick you should mix that cough syrup with a lil sprite my g.

@Chris-uc3rk 4 жыл бұрын

If you don't recommend 15kyu to study pro games then what rank do you think it becomes a useful way to improve? I am 1 dan and i don't study them often.

@kiraPh1234k 4 жыл бұрын

This is a long video, I might make many comments. While I would agree that playing games and studying tsumego are probably best, I'd add caveats; 1. The games should be long. Especially if you're DDK. You need to take your time and think about what you're doing to develop your strategies. You use your strategies faster as you learn them. This is the common "slow down to speed up" technique used in accelerating learning speed and physical speed across many disciplines. DO NOT BLITZ - IT WILL ONLY TEACH YOU TO AVOID READING 2. The game should be serious. If not, you're likely to make even more mistakes. 3. The games should be reviewed. It's very difficult to learn from something if you never look at your mistakes. Mistakes are the epitome of learning. 4. The review should be focused. In that you should look for few mistakes, but the biggest ones. If you only focus on 1 that's perfectly fine. If you focus on 30 it's almost certainly not helping. 4. The next game should be focused on fixing the mistake you have reviewed. If you can learn 1 thing each game and apply it to the next, you will soar. 5. You'll hate this Nick, but don't discount books. By doing nothing other than long serious games with review and studying books I made it to 5k from beginner in one month, and with less than 200 games. Though I did spend 5 or more hours per day studying Go. And as a final note, I don't actually think studying pro games is a waste of any players time. I would ask the question, have you developed a Go improvement program based on pro game review and actually compared the results to that of games+tsumego? I doubt so and as such I don't think anyone who makes that statement has a solid basis upon which to make it. On top of that, it's easy to play games and study tsumego incorrectly and harm your improvement because of it.

@arthurwright1433 3 жыл бұрын

Very old comment but if you see this, might I ask what studying tseumego "wrong" refers to? I'm a beginner (~10kyu) and I've heard so much conflicting advice on the best way to study tseumego

@kiraPh1234k 3 жыл бұрын

@@arthurwright1433 Well, many consider my preferred study method to be too strict but I'll give two options that I think are good and why. It's hard to say what is actually "wrong" but there are habits we can identify from certain activities that we might want to avoid which is what I mean when I say "wrong" here. So, the first method I use and prefer is to use books to study tsumego with no answer keys. To use them as pure reading and evaluation practice. The second is a specific app I have found that implements restrictions that help prevent some of the bad habits app/electronic tools can allow. This app is called "BadukPop" As far as the main issues with other apps, which entice people to use due to the interactivity and ease of use, is that they can be very easily used to develop bad habits. The most common one being "click and check" where a person doesn't know the answer but just tried clicking through the problem. This alone isn't going to harm you, but it can lead to clicking through more and more while reading much less. For example, you may end up confidently clicking a stone without reading and only looking at the problem for 10 seconds only to see it's wrong. But in a way the damage has been done, and each time you click you become less and less motivate to stop and actually read it the problem. This habit is one that easily translates to games, potentially causing habits like not spending time on reading or even stopping reading just because it looks hard even though you haven't looked at it very long and then playing a stone. In game, there are generally no undos like in a problem so this is why I think the best way in that regard is to treat go problems as if they also don't have undo buttons. As a caveat to that, it's definitely reasonable to train in a way that encourages reading for a specific period if time but still answering within a period of time. This does mean eventually clicking, but simulates a game where you do have a time limit to read. This is why I like "BadukPop". That app gives you limited time and limited chances to solve a problem as well as makes you go through fairly considerable trouble to look up an answer. So even though it offers the ease of use and interactivity of electronic tools, it helps encourage using it in ways that build good habits. A related idea that brings people down this path is also the fear of not knowing the answer. But this is a fear best overcome. We don't need to know the answer at all to benefit from the problem, and in game we won't "know" the answer either. But this desire to know the answer means that when people do get told they are wrong, they might start clicking to see if they can find the right answer which is further distraction from practicing reading the problems. Much of these issues can also be avoided just by playing games instead of tsumego as the games will offer even more practice opportunity while encouraging good habits. If you have more questions on BadukPop, the book method or anything else then I am happy to answer and share my opinions and experiences.

@arthurwright1433 3 жыл бұрын

@@kiraPh1234k Hey thanks for the thorough reply. Thankfully BadukPop is actually the app that I have been using to study tseumego! I also like how it has a time limit and only two attempts at solving allowed. That being said, a remaining question I have is about the difficulty of problems to work on. I generally get about 80%+ of the "level 3" problems correct, but probably less than half or even a third of the level 4 problems. I'm not sure if I should focus on even more accurate performance with the easier problems, or start challenging myself with the more difficult ones.

@kiraPh1234k 3 жыл бұрын

@@arthurwright1433 For that I'd say find a mix that works for you. Looking to challenge yourself is great. Going over the level 3s is also great. The only thing I'd avoid there is if the problems start to get so easy that you're finding yourself not actually reading them then that's a bug indicator that you'd need to increase the difficulty level to keep yourself motivated to keep reading through practice. But if you're still reading them then you're definitely still benefiting very much from "easy" feeling problems too.