Beginners
Why almost every Go teacher starts beginners on 9×9, what the small board teaches that the big one hides, and when to move up to 13×13 and 19×19.
Endgame
Yose is the Go endgame, where borders are closed and every point counts. What it is, when it starts, and why many close games are decided in it.
Joseki
Joseki are standard corner sequences in Go that give both sides a fair result. What they are, why they exist, and how to learn them without memorising blindly.
Life and Death
Why a group with two separate eyes can never be captured, why one eye is not enough, and how to make eyes in the corner, on the edge and in the centre.
Openings
The two most popular first moves in a Go corner compared: the 4-4 star point and the 3-4 point, what each one aims for, and which to choose as a beginner.
Joseki
What happens when your star-point corner is approached or invaded at 3-3: the main ideas behind the answers, who gets territory and who gets influence.
Joseki
An honest look at memorising joseki in Go: what beginners gain and lose, how much to learn at each stage, and a better way to study corner sequences.
Glossary
Sente, gote, tenuki and miai describe who moves next and which points are interchangeable in Go. Clear definitions and how each shapes your choices.
Endgame
Sente keeps the initiative, gote gives it away. How the difference shapes the order of endgame moves in Go, with double sente, reverse sente and examples.
Life and Death
Seki, or mutual life, is a strange but important situation in Go where neither side can capture the other. How it forms, why both groups live and how it is coun
Fighting
Facing a large opposing framework in Go, you can reduce it from outside or invade it. How counting the score tells you which one the game needs.
Openings
How the opening works on the small 9×9 Go board: the strength of the centre point, third-line versus fourth-line moves, early contact and a simple plan.