The Surrounding Game: A Documentary Film (kickstarter)(kickstarter.com)
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The Surrounding Game: A Documentary Film (kickstarter)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1750734787/the-surrounding-game-a-documentary-film
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I recently started learning Go - any recommendations for beginners?
Play many 9x9 games; play against the program Igowin: it can beat dan players. Keep playing 9x9 and 13x13 games until you are 8 to 10 kyu in strength.
Play on 19x19 games and study fuseki theory -- how to play the opening. Start to study joseki, but do not memorize them; understand the principles behind joseki.
Replay professional games. I am a fan of Shusaku (the book Invincible is a must read for any serious Western player). Don't simply click through games on the computer. Get a set of stones and a board. Play through the games. Get a feeling for the moves. Try to understand the strategies.
Once you get to 4 kyu, study tsume-go problems (http://senseis.xmp.net/?Tsumego). Start with problems around the 6 kyu level. Keep studying the same problems over-and-over until you can solve them in milliseconds. Then move up to 4 kyu problems. Repeat. Keep doing this until you become a dan player. If you study 1 hour of tsume-go every day like this, you might reach 5 dan in about four months.
As soon as you can, if you can afford it, take private lessons with professional players. KGS has many.
Play on 19x19 games and study fuseki theory -- how to play the opening. Start to study joseki, but do not memorize them; understand the principles behind joseki.
Replay professional games. I am a fan of Shusaku (the book Invincible is a must read for any serious Western player). Don't simply click through games on the computer. Get a set of stones and a board. Play through the games. Get a feeling for the moves. Try to understand the strategies.
Once you get to 4 kyu, study tsume-go problems (http://senseis.xmp.net/?Tsumego). Start with problems around the 6 kyu level. Keep studying the same problems over-and-over until you can solve them in milliseconds. Then move up to 4 kyu problems. Repeat. Keep doing this until you become a dan player. If you study 1 hour of tsume-go every day like this, you might reach 5 dan in about four months.
As soon as you can, if you can afford it, take private lessons with professional players. KGS has many.
I've recommended this tutorial to a lot of beginners, it really helps with the basic concepts:
http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/
http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/
Just about everything you should know, and way more than you have time to learn: http://senseis.xmp.net
If you're on DGS, challenge me (I'm also a beginner) to a game. Same user name as here.
If you're on DGS, challenge me (I'm also a beginner) to a game. Same user name as here.
Make an account on KGS (http://gokgs.com) and hang out in/ask for teaching games in the KGS teaching ladder.
The use of RJD2 in the soundtrack seems to go a bit above and beyond fair use.
If you like Go, you'll enjoy Trevanian's Shibumi.
This looks like a great documentary and on one of my favorite subjects so donation submitted.
On a different note, I think a large percentage of TV programming in the near future will be financed like this (percentage by number, there will always be expensive blockbusters). Unfortunately due to constraints, the current Kickstarter model can back mostly documentaries but not miniseries, sitcoms, action movies, etc. But if Netflix or Amazon open their streaming pipes to third party content, a la the Apple all model, I think we'll see an explosion of such content.