Life In 19x19

Go Magic official platform release!

For this historical moment we are releasing the entire course on typical mistakes 2.0. This is the best thing we’ve made yet!

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

We’ve also revamped the main page and grown a couple of new skills on the Skill Tree.

https://gomagic.org

Thanks to everyone who has been patiently waiting for the launch and supporting us. We wouldn’t be able to make it without you!

Go Magic will keep on working and growing. There are more new courses, features and adventures lying ahead!

Play Go, not War

Congratulations!

Take care

A new Go Magic YouTube channel for English-speaking viewers:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqerkZelwpOiq56XXPmfZSQ

We’ll be publishing only the best of our videos here, all of them in English.

We are also planning to make original content just for YouTube. Subscribe now so you don't miss anything!

The first video on this new channel is the interview with Alexander Dinerstein that is now dubbed in English:
https://youtu.be/-ShJCEvJIyY

Have fun watching it!

P.S. Our old channel is now called “GM Library” and we’ll be using it as a storage of lessons, streams and other videos.

Here comes the second interview with Alexander Dinerstein dubbed in English! Nerdy questions for nerdy Go players:

https://youtu.be/jc2mdbOKHO4

GOLD membership to all teachers and club leaders for free!

Yeah, you heard it right. If you’re in charge of a Go club as a teacher, we’ll give you a GOLD membership that you can use at your Go club (Go school) or possibly for your personal improvement.

What do you need to do?

Email us at contact@gomagic.org and please tell us the following information:

1. What is your name?
2. Tell us a little about yourself: how long have you been playing Go and what is your level?
3. What Go club or school do you teach at (name of club, country, city)?
4. How do you plan to use the Go Magic membership?
5. Make a separate Go Magic account for your club (school) in advance and tell us what email it is registered to.

We ask for nothing in return.

GOMAGIC.ORG

A debut article from Pavel Gvozdev (aka GrandpaFrog): Reading Is Power! Where and How to Solve Go Problems

Pavel shared his favorite apps for solving Go problems as well as some inspiring advice on doing it efficiently from seasoned Go masters.

The entire course on the basics of 5-3 is now available!
https://gomagic.org/courses/basics-of-the-5-3-point

AI suggestions, unusual fuseki ideas and a trip to Edo period Japan await you!

New article! This time Jae will give you an American’s impression of Hikaru No Go!

https://gomagic.org/hikaru-no-go

This article might well be a good reason to watch all of the episodes of this wonderful anime yet another time and get another serving of Go motivation.

Saw this on the EGF FB page! This is really amazing. Thank you!

Here are some of our future plans!

More than 200 people have taken the recent survey. There were lots of kind words and reasonable suggestions there! Thank you so much!

We’ve made some adjustments in our plans that you can find on our new roadmap page:
https://gomagic.org/roadmap

Many of you wrote that the platform is great but there aren’t enough courses and problems. True that! However you must know that we are a very small team and we don’t have any sponsors, so the speed of new content creation can’t be too high. However, we do everything we can to make it faster. For example we’ve decided to reduce the number of visual effects in our future courses which should have a nice effect on the speed of filming and editing.

There were mixed opinions about the remake of our beginner courses, so we decided to go for a compromise. We are not going to reshoot them all right away. We’ll do it gradually, alternating with other courses.

We already started working on the remake of the course with the rules — it will now turn into a complete introduction to the game, not just with the rules but with answers to all most commonly asked beginner questions. We hope to make the best introduction to Go ever!

After that Vadim will create another course. What will it be about? You decide! Stay tuned for the next poll coming soon!

It's great that you're willing to respond to feedback. Will sub as soon as I can. Between this and the relatively new formation of the North American Go Federation I have a lot of optimism about things.

proskurius wrote:Here are some of our future plans!

More than 200 people have taken the recent survey. There were lots of kind words and reasonable suggestions there! Thank you so much!

We’ve made some adjustments in our plans that you can find on our new roadmap page:
https://gomagic.org/roadmap

Many of you wrote that the platform is great but there aren’t enough courses and problems. True that! However you must know that we are a very small team and we don’t have any sponsors, so the speed of new content creation can’t be too high. However, we do everything we can to make it faster. For example we’ve decided to reduce the number of visual effects in our future courses which should have a nice effect on the speed of filming and editing.

There were mixed opinions about the remake of our beginner courses, so we decided to go for a compromise. We are not going to reshoot them all right away. We’ll do it gradually, alternating with other courses.

We already started working on the remake of the course with the rules — it will now turn into a complete introduction to the game, not just with the rules but with answers to all most commonly asked beginner questions. We hope to make the best introduction to Go ever!

After that Vadim will create another course. What will it be about? You decide! Stay tuned for the next poll coming soon!

Have you considered bringing in external teachers and sharing the proceeds on any course they make with them? That might be a good way to increase the amount of content

mart900 wrote:Have you considered bringing in external teachers and sharing the proceeds on any course they make with them? That might be a good way to increase the amount of content

We have a special page for this: https://gomagic.org/become-a-teacher
But unfortunately there are very few people willing to film courses, and not all of them meet our quality standards.

There are three new skill branches in the Skill Tree:
1. Big & Urgent Moves
2. Life & Death 2
3. Sente & Gote

https://gomagic.org/skills

Please welcome the debut work from the new teacher Alexey Nechaev 4D, who executed a completely different approach to making a course: three short lessons on simple tesujis in the form of a screencast!

https://gomagic.org/courses/how-tesuji-works

Check it out and let us know if we should use this video format in our future courses!