Life In 19x19

Doing the trial for 1$.

I will post here my feelings about it.

So far I have viewed 3 demo videos and feel I have learned more about joseki/fuseki than I would in 30 minutes of studying a book, learned more about pro thinking than I would in 20 minutes of reading a book, as well as made me think a whole lot.

Basically compared to a book the time part might be not as informative exactly, but the fact is it is entertaining and the content they talk about (joseki etc) is brand new stuff not in books.

First impressions: not as many saved english videos as I thought, i think they stop after like 6 months or 3 months previous. However, 4 full page of like 7 per page... each video being 50 mins is still around 1,500 minutes of video....yea.


And also you can watch the korean channel live...

30 pages of korean baduk tv non-english videos as well.

Here are some topics of the videos:

Kim Seongryong’s lessons
Becoming 5 kyu
Searching for exquisite games
Random tournament game reviews (big ones like LG Cup etc..)

Im going to start on a lesson called "becoming 5 kyu"

Becoming 5 kyu and such lectures on general play= 15-20 min long it seems.

Game reviews= 50 minute long videos.

So I was a bit off in the video lengths, but still seem good length. The subtitles are very good.

So the first becoming 5 kyu lesson is a bit surprising.. I find the vital points of it are things I know already as I am 2k on kgs... but actually I learned some different ways of thinking about why we play the kind of opening moves we do and also some patterns. Its actually more useful than any other video ive seen on youtube or such even though it is aimed at 5kyu!

On to the next one:

Each page is 10 videos. There are a total of 31 English videos as I write this.

Also learned a really basic tip to L&D I never knew that will likely help me a lot with problems... so simple and yet effective.

So far I can only say that I agree with the gogameguru sites comment "In Korea, 5 kyu can actually be quite strong, so even dan level players will find some useful knowledge here."

I am on lesson two and have learned some really basic life and death as well as opening thinking, and a joseki or two is new to me in fact

Interesting follow up of the basic 4-4, low approach, low pincer, 3-3 block outside for a wall joseki too.

oren wrote:Each page is 10 videos. There are a total of 31 English videos as I write this.

Thanks for the correct info, i was just guestimating

The service is still pretty new, they bring out a new subbed video every 2 days. Sometimes more.

I love it for the same reasons as you seem to like it ^^

edit: Btw. watch the 007 videos, they are quite funny too (on top of being insightful and instructive) ^^

NoSkill wrote:First impressions: not as many saved english videos as I thought, i think they stop after like 6 months or 3 months previous.

Does anyone know if they are deleting old videos or if this is just how long they've been making them? Also, how old are the becoming 5k videos? I'm hoping they'll still be there when I go for my $1 trial next month.

NoSkill wrote:Also learned a really basic tip to L&D I never knew that will likely help me a lot with problems... so simple and yet effective.

So far I can only say that I agree with the gogameguru sites comment "In Korea, 5 kyu can actually be quite strong, so even dan level players will find some useful knowledge here."

I am on lesson two and have learned some really basic life and death as well as opening thinking, and a joseki or two is new to me in fact

Interesting follow up of the basic 4-4, low approach, low pincer, 3-3 block outside for a wall joseki too.

If you say you're 5kyu(gup) in Korea, that usually means you're Tygem 4~5dan player.
In Korean traditional ranking system, 1kyu is the strongest amateur player and dan ranks are for pros.
So,

1kyu = 8~9dan(Tygem)
3kyu = 6~7dan
5kyu = 4~5dan
7kyu = 1~3dan
9kyu = 1~5kyu

There are usually no even numbered ranks, and below these ranks are just beginners.
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Maybe I'm too much off topic....?

lovelove wrote:

NoSkill wrote:Also learned a really basic tip to L&D I never knew that will likely help me a lot with problems... so simple and yet effective.

So far I can only say that I agree with the gogameguru sites comment "In Korea, 5 kyu can actually be quite strong, so even dan level players will find some useful knowledge here."

I am on lesson two and have learned some really basic life and death as well as opening thinking, and a joseki or two is new to me in fact

Interesting follow up of the basic 4-4, low approach, low pincer, 3-3 block outside for a wall joseki too.

If you say you're 5kyu(gup) in Korea, that usually means you're Tygem 4~5dan player.
In Korean traditional ranking system, 1kyu is the strongest amateur player and dan ranks are for pros.
So,

1kyu = 8~9dan(Tygem)
3kyu = 6~7dan
5kyu = 4~5dan
7kyu = 1~3dan
9kyu = 1~5kyu

There are usually no even numbered ranks, and below these ranks are just beginners.

Quite informative, I didn't know (after reading the Novel 'First Kyu') that it is still like that.

The lectures that aren't game reviews are trick plays, joseki, and such. Very modern stuff, but kind of surprising because you get the misconception online that koreans are only fighters and don't memorize joseki which is definitly false.

Splatted wrote:Does anyone know if they are deleting old videos or if this is just how long they've been making them? Also, how old are the becoming 5k videos? I'm hoping they'll still be there when I go for my $1 trial next month.

They are not deleting old videos as far as I can tell. I'm sure David will chime in later.

Great. Thanks Oren.

I'd try it right now if it didn't mean having any kind of contact with paypal.