Malaysia Weiqi Association (Go Lessons): http://mwagolessons.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/

Mistakes on those pages:

- "A semeai is a situation whereby two opposing groups": More than two groups are possible.
- "2. Always fill in outside liberties first": wrong.
- "3. A group of stones that has one eye will beat the group of stones that has no eyes": wrong.
- "As a general rule, the bigger the eye you have, the better because bigger eyes has more liberties inside. [...] Therefore, in a capturing race situation, try to make as big an eye-space as possible.": wrong. (It is right only for eyes with certain additional properties.)

It is even better to have rules that specify when they are applicable. Beginners looking for basic rules only can use such starting with a "Usually,". E.g., "Usually, approach from the outside first". It does not work for an eye versus no eye; counting liberties or reading is necessary there! So what a beginner might learn is: "An eye can, but need not always, help." "The size of an eye can, but need not always, be decisive."

Rules are useful for beginners, like me, even if experts can find plenty of exceptions. At least, a common observation by many instructors in many different fields is to learn the rules first and then learn by experience when they don't apply. A process that might be termed mastery...

I surrender. I thought that I would start a thread on useful web resources for beginners, not a debate on the usefulness of general rules.

I surrender. I thought that I would start a thread on useful web resources for beginners, not a debate on the usefulness of general rules.

You just have to ignore RJ a bit on these things.

Webpages with correct information are useful - such with wrong information are counter-productive. Listening to me helps distinguishing both, and hopefully wrong information will be corrected. (I have not checked the youtube pages.)

These are pretty much the resources I used too when I first started learning about Capture races. The first time I just looked at the diagrams and didn't really understand anything.

But by the tenth time or so I started to get an idea.

If you make another thread for useful resources, I request one on reduction moves!

But you are much stronger than me! Nevertheless, perhaps some of the articles at 361points.com are worthwhile (or not, Robert Jasiek?), such as this very short article Expand or Invade?: http://361points.com/articles/9/1/

I also have read many articles at Senseis, such as Reduction is worth as much as an invasion, http://senseis.xmp.net/?ReductionIsWort ... AnInvasion
I never could find the reference from that article to some article by Bill Spight on this subject, though.

Correct information is relative to strength.

Truth (and therefore correct information) is absolute. It is possible to perceive / teach incomplete information. Incomplete information does not require incorrectness. In particular, there is no need whatsoever to teach incorrect information such as "an eye kills no eyes" in a position such as this capturing race, where Black has an eye and White has no eyes in the shape of his own string.