Really nice video, thank you. Your buddy's opponent deserves some credit too, for being "well behaved" rather than playing ridiculously -- so that the whole game was reasonable and understandable. And thanks also for showing other details that were just under the surface, like Black's potential shoulder hit at, uh, K17 or wherever it was.
Hey I just wanted to say that I just found your channel from your beginner's guide series, and I'm so glad that you're still making content! I've wanted to learn Go for years now, and I could never get past the learning curve. But your series was just what I needed to get me started! I'm still not good at it. I have a lot more games to lose before I get there, but I have the tools I need to actually learn from my mistakes. So yeah. Thank you and keep it up!
i just started maranthoning your channel recently and i watched your video about how to know a games over but there's still one thing i don't understand. Why not take the extra move at the end to capture dead stones? Sure you count the territory anyways but if the game ends and 8 stones are dead wouldn't capturing them get you 8 points of territory and another 8 points for captures? i think there's something i'm missing here tbh this is quite a game to learn
Hey, so glad you enjoy my content! Thats a great question, and Ill try to be as clear as I can cause this can be confusing for beginners. When you capture a stone, you get one point. However, every stone you place in your territory reduces your points by 1. So, if a group is 'dead on board' and you take say, 5 stones to kill them completely, youve filled in 5 spaces of your own territory and have lost 5 points. At the end of the game, and groups not unconditionally alive are automatically counted as dead, so the burden is on our opponent to "prove" their group can live.
@@InSente I guess i'm more confused about how the points are counted. if there's no way for 5 stones to live but they aren't captured are they counted as 5 points because of the territory, or 10 points because they're assumed to be dead, because that's how it would be counted if you did capture them right?
@@ryan_edmond exactly. So the "dead" stones are removed from the board and you get them as prisoners. So you get two points per dead stone, one for the prisoner and one for the empty space they left behind in your territory
Your audio is always really quiet! I love your videos but I have to turn them up all the way and turn my fan off to hear them. Still, thanks for sharing this video with us! Very instructional.
Just randomly came in here from recommendations. One thing that remains a mystery for me is that what are your qualifications for teaching go? I can't really see much information regarding that anywhere in the channel, only some video titles regarding online 1-2 dan games from a year or more ago.
Hello! Well, I don't really have any formal qualifications (though I"m not sure how we even define 'qualifications' here on youtube). I'm just a low Dan player and longtime fan of the game that (from what people tell me) can explain the game in an engaging and fun way. If you feel like you learned something, great!
Excellent video. Pls do more of this kind...
Really nice video, thank you. Your buddy's opponent deserves some credit too, for being "well behaved" rather than playing ridiculously -- so that the whole game was reasonable and understandable. And thanks also for showing other details that were just under the surface, like Black's potential shoulder hit at, uh, K17 or wherever it was.
Hey I just wanted to say that I just found your channel from your beginner's guide series, and I'm so glad that you're still making content! I've wanted to learn Go for years now, and I could never get past the learning curve. But your series was just what I needed to get me started!
I'm still not good at it. I have a lot more games to lose before I get there, but I have the tools I need to actually learn from my mistakes. So yeah. Thank you and keep it up!
thanks for this i would love to see more video in this style 👍
Very helpful! Thanks!
Great ddk game ! 👍
i just started maranthoning your channel recently and i watched your video about how to know a games over but there's still one thing i don't understand. Why not take the extra move at the end to capture dead stones? Sure you count the territory anyways but if the game ends and 8 stones are dead wouldn't capturing them get you 8 points of territory and another 8 points for captures? i think there's something i'm missing here tbh this is quite a game to learn
if they dont have enough space in the end they die anyway. So with capturing those stones you steal territory-points from yourself.
Hey, so glad you enjoy my content! Thats a great question, and Ill try to be as clear as I can cause this can be confusing for beginners. When you capture a stone, you get one point. However, every stone you place in your territory reduces your points by 1. So, if a group is 'dead on board' and you take say, 5 stones to kill them completely, youve filled in 5 spaces of your own territory and have lost 5 points. At the end of the game, and groups not unconditionally alive are automatically counted as dead, so the burden is on our opponent to "prove" their group can live.
@@InSente I guess i'm more confused about how the points are counted. if there's no way for 5 stones to live but they aren't captured are they counted as 5 points because of the territory, or 10 points because they're assumed to be dead, because that's how it would be counted if you did capture them right?
@@ryan_edmond exactly. So the "dead" stones are removed from the board and you get them as prisoners. So you get two points per dead stone, one for the prisoner and one for the empty space they left behind in your territory
@@InSente ah okay thank you
You're like a gobending master! 😍
With regards to the discord channel, are you European or American based?
We are american based but we have members from the EU as well!
Your audio is always really quiet! I love your videos but I have to turn them up all the way and turn my fan off to hear them. Still, thanks for sharing this video with us! Very instructional.
Thanks for the feedback! Is it both myself and my patron, or just my patron? I can try upping the volume when I do my editing next time 😁
@@InSente IMO its the video's overall audio level. I genuinely thought there was no audio as I had music in the background where I was :P
Just randomly came in here from recommendations. One thing that remains a mystery for me is that what are your qualifications for teaching go? I can't really see much information regarding that anywhere in the channel, only some video titles regarding online 1-2 dan games from a year or more ago.
Hello! Well, I don't really have any formal qualifications (though I"m not sure how we even define 'qualifications' here on youtube). I'm just a low Dan player and longtime fan of the game that (from what people tell me) can explain the game in an engaging and fun way. If you feel like you learned something, great!
Why don't you watch her videos and see if you learn something?
@@leonchess2779 so which videos in particular would you suggest for this exercise?
@@chardonnay5767 Given how utterly gormless you sound, you probably need to start with the Beginner Go Series playlist.
@@FrancoisTremblay lol ouch, but in fairness, a snippy comment like that needed a comeback, so I salute you.
Nice, play at least same lvl opponents though