Go Magic: A Modern Way to Study Go

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:17 am

There are two new skill branches in the Skill Tree! Hurry up and solve them!

https://gomagic.org/skills

Joseki 4-4
Yose Tesuji

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:50 am

A new article from our regular contributor Jae Matson. This time it’s about the recent pro qualification tournament in the US. Who are the new pros? Did everything go smoothly?

Read it here: https://gomagic.org/nagf-quali-2022

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:45 am

One of our subscribers Gerard Slooven from Holland has translated his own article about the relation between Go and Buddhism into English. Here is the result!

https://gomagic.org/go-and-buddhism/

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:39 am

Hey y’all, Stanislaw Frejlak 1p is coming to visit us and he’s bringing some courses for Go Magic with him. There are lots of cool topics in his suitcase, so you’ve got some tough choices to make here!

1. Ko — Take control over the chaos! (Stanislaw’s favorite topic)
2. Endgame — How to search for the biggest move and count move values precisely (this feels like a sequel to Vadim’s course)
3. Extensions — Protect your stones by safely extending, nuances of many common shapes
4. Moyo — How to build, invade, and defend
5. Sente exchanges — Why they are bad for you, and what are the exceptions
6. Peeps — Connect or fight back?
7. Sacrifices — Ars Moriendi, or How to stick in opponents throat
8. The sources of mistakes — Emotional traps and cognitive errors

Stanislaw himself would like to male a course about endgame or ko but the choice is yours. If there is a topic that you’d really want to become a course, go ahead and vote for it!

Alright, go ahead and vote for two topics to give us a better idea of your preferences.

https://forms.gle/buCRVbn99nPcpZJX7

P.S. Our Discord polls bot doesn’t want to function so this time the vote will happen through Google Form.

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 5:57 am

New achievement unlocked: 5000 registered users! In order to celebrate we announce a week of massive discounts on courses and memberships!

Enter the promo code MAGIC5000 until October 24 and get a 40% discount.

https://gomagic.org

P.S. If you already have a premium membership, you can use the discount to extend it.

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:11 am

The improved and expanded Go rules course!

https://gomagic.org/courses/go-rules

Making Go more popular is one of the most important missions of our project. So we tried making this course modern, fun and clear enough, so that anyone could play and finish a game on their own after completing it. Did we get it right? Did we miss anything? Please leave your comments and we’ll try to fix all the bugs quickly so that this course could be rightfully considered the best!

We’ll publish an interactive page with Go rules in the nearest future as well, for those who prefer reading to watching videos. Plus we’ve made an atari Go bot, so you’ll be able to practice capturing stones on our website soon as well.

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Sat Nov 05, 2022 11:53 am

We’ve released the final skills for the School of Wizards!

https://gomagic.org/go-problems

Both this skill tree and the first one will keep growing with new problems and we are already beginning to work on the next “Magical Academy” tree (8–1 kyu). You can take a look at its structure on the website.

Some stats

There are over 3000 problems on our platform already!
2270 problems in the Skill Tree and ~1000 problems in the courses.

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:26 am

“Typical Mistakes 2.0” is available for half the price until November 24!

https://gomagic.org/courses/typical-mistakes-2/

We’ll be doing course sales from time to time now. Subscribe and stay tuned for updates if you don’t want to miss anything!

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 2:47 am

Stanislaw Frejlak has successfully reached Batumi! As you can see from the photo, sea air and khinkali make people happy!

Work on the new course "Ko — take control over the chaos" (the winner of the last survey) is fully underway, but we also plan to shoot a short interview in the style of 15 questions to a Go professional. Please leave your questions in the comments, we will choose the best ones and ask them to Stanislaw.

P.S. The previous video with 15 questions to Alexander Dinerstein: https://youtu.be/jc2mdbOKHO4

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Fri Nov 25, 2022 4:57 am

Two updates for beginners coming at once!

We have launched the beta version of the atari-go bot! He's not playing very well yet, but we'll fix it over time.
https://gomagic.org/atari-go/

You can now learn the rules of Go on our new interactive page.
https://gomagic.org/how-to-play-go-rules/

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:18 am

Spanish subtitles are now available in the course on typical mistakes!

https://gomagic.org/courses/typical-mistakes/

Thanks to our volunteer Sergio from Spain.

If you want to see this or any other course in your native language and are ready to help us with this — send a message to us in any convenient way. Right now we don't have the opportunity to pay for this work, but we can provide an exclusive premium subscription.

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:03 am

The monumental and unique course on attachments from Alexander Dinerstein is now on sale.

‍https://gomagic.org/courses/the-art-of-attachments

The Art of Attachments course is available for half the price until December 12.

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Sun Dec 11, 2022 11:57 am

A new article from our regular author Jae Matson!

https://gomagic.org/the-surrounding-game/

This time he interviewed one of the creators of “The Surrounding Game” and discovered a lot of wonderful details. If you haven’t even seen the movie yet, go read the interview quickly first!

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:21 pm

Help us prioritize which courses to work on! We have so much content that we don't know where to start

. Which course do you want to see next? Vote for your top choice:

1. Basic Invasions (Vadim Efimenko)
2. The remake of "The Fundamentals of Go on 13×13" (Vadim Efimenko)
3. Ko — Take Control Over the Chaos (Stanislaw Frejlak)
4. Endgame for Nerds (Stanislaw Frejlak)
5. Kajiwara Takeo: The Giant Who Made Titans (Matthew McKee)

We've already started working on Basic Invasions, but it's a massive course that will be released in parts. Let us know your thoughts in the comments and vote using Google Form:

https://forms.gle/5Lzj87ognjfodzyD9

proskurius · Post by **proskurius** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:29 am

Would you like to learn how to invade bravely into your opponent's areas?

Our new course "Fearless Invasions" will help you with that.

https://gomagic.org/courses/basic-invasions

The first four lessons are ready so far. The course is huge and will be released in several parts.

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