Guo Juan's Internet Go School
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- Middle gameLectures about the middle game.
- Pro gamesPro and grand master's games with detailed comments.
- Free LecturesIn this category, all the lectures are free of charge. Enjoy!
- French Lectures Lectures in the French language.
- JosekiLectures about joseki.
- Step courseA step by step course, for players ranging in strength from 30 kyu to 1 dan. 15 lectures in all.
- Other typesThis category contains interesting lectures that do not fall into the any of the other categories.
- Game reviewsIn order to make progress, it is very important to know how to correct your own mistakes. We will have lectures in 5 different levels: 30k-20k, 20k-10k, 10k-1k, 1d-3d, 3d-5d. 2 lectures for each level.
- Basic shapesBasic shapes are very important in the game of Go. They are fundamental, and are similar to the foundation of a house
- End Game If we don't kill big groups to finish the game, then the End game becomes really important. Even when we are behind, we still have chance to win the game by playing a good end game.
- Punishing opponent's mistakesHow to punish our opponent's mistakes is a question we hear often from our students and many other players. In this category, we will help you learn how to punish overplays and mistakes.
- Basic course All the subejects in this basic course will help you to build your 'house' on solid rocks, instead of on soft sand. Each subject we will have three lectures
Lectures about the middle game.
- How to win a won game
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How to win a won game. level from 10k to 5dan. Total 10 lectures. Teachers: Yan An 7p and Guo Juan 5p. This is also a step by step course. In this course we will help you to win more games, especially the games which you are leading.
- How to win a won game lesson 1
How to win a won game lesson 1
Teacher: Yan An 7p, Guo Juan 5p
Even when we are leading by 30 points, sometimes we still lose the game. Why? You will find the answer in this course. We will help you win more games!
The example games are from 15-10k level.
Duration: 85 min.
Created on December 25, 2005 by Yan An 7p . - How to win a won game lesson 2
How to win a won game lesson 2
Teacher: Yan An 7p, Guo Juan 5p
Level: 15k - 5d
The example game is from 8k-10k.
Duration: 86 min.
Created on January 6, 2006 by Yan An 7p . - How to win a won game lesson 3
How to win a won game lesson 3
Teacher: Yan An 7p, Guo Juan 5p
Level: 15k - 5d
The example game is from 8k-10k.
Duration: 59 min.
Created on January 30, 2006 by Yan An 7p . - How to win a won game lesson 4
How to win a won game lesson 4
Teacher: Yan An 7p, Guo Juan 5p
Level: 15k - 5d
The example games and exercises are from 8-10k, from Chinese Go server Tom.
Duration: 44 min.
Created on February 24, 2006 by Yan An 7p . - How to win a won game lesson 5
How to win a won game lesson 5
Teacher: Yan An 7p, Guo Juan 5p
The example games and exercises are from 5-7k, from Chinese Go server Tom.
Created on March 14, 2006 by Yan An 7p .
Duration: 43min. - How to win a won game lesson 6
How to win a won game lesson 6
Teacher: Yan An 7p, Guo Juan 5p
The example game and exercises are from 3-6k, from Chinese Go server Tom.
Created on April 29, 2006 by Yan An 7p .
Duration: 44min.
- How to win a won game lesson 1
- Important Stones
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This is a basic course with 5 lectures in total. They will help us to understand which stones are important and which are not. With this understanding we will be able to look at the whole board more, and avoid fighting too much in local areas and losing the big points.
Level: 30k-3d
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p- Important Stones Lecture 1We will learn how to determine which stones are the cutting stones.
Example games:
7k-9k (kgs)
Teacher: Shen Jing 2p
Level: 30k-1k
Duration: 32 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on March 20, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Important Stones Lecture 2Important stones
Leture 2
Important / Unimportant stones
Teacher ShenJing (Jennie) 2p
Example games:
Kgs 7k-9k
Level: 30k - 1k
Duration: 31min.
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month
Created on March 28, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Important Stones Lecture 3Sometimes, a group of stones is less important than one or two stones.
With exercises.
Teacher: Shen Jing 2p
Duration: 30min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month. Created on April 12, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Important Stones Lecture 4Important stones
Lecture 4
duration 40 minutes.
level: 10k -5d
example and exercises level: 1d-pro game
teacher: Jennie Shen 2p Created on October 12, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Important Stones Lecture 5Important stones
lecture 5
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p
Level 10k-5d
Example+exercise level 5d-pro game
Duration: 43minutes
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on October 26, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p.
- Important Stones Lecture 1We will learn how to determine which stones are the cutting stones.
- All about attacking
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Attacking is a thing many players like to do. It is often necessary, and it makes the game more fun. But if we attack in the wrong way, we will lose more than we gain.
In this course we will learn, step by step, the wise way of attacking.
Level: 30k – 3d
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p- Leaning attack lecture 1leaning attack leture 1
Teacher: Shen Jing 2p
Level: 30k-1d
Games from kgs 8k
Duration: 31mins
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on April 25, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Leaning attack lecture 2Teacher: Shen Jing 2p
Example : pro game
Exercise: kgs 1d-8k
level: 20k-3d
duration: 36mins
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on May 6, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Leaning attack lecture 3Leaning attack 3
Teacher: ShenJing (Jennie) 2p
English speaking : ShenJing 2p
Duration: 38 min.
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month.
Created on May 18, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Thickness attack Lecture 1How to use thickness to attack
Lecture 1
Level 30k-1k
Example and exercises level kgs 7k-9k
Dration 36 min
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on June 7, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Leaning attack lecture 4Leaning attack 4
Teacher: ShenJing (Jennie) 2p
English speaking : ShenJing 2p
Duration: 37 min.
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month. Created on June 27, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Leaning attack lecture 5Leaning attack Lecture 5
Teacher: ShenJing (Jennie) 2p
English speaking : ShenJing 2p
Duration: 40 min.
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month. Created on July 22, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Thickness attack Lecture 2How to use thickness to attack
Lecture 2
Teacher: Shen Jing 2p
Level 20k-1d
Examples and exercises level: kgs 8k + 1 pro game
Duration 33 minutes
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on August 10, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Direction of Attack Lecture 1Direction of Attack
lecture 1
level 20k-1d
Exampe game: kgs 5k-8k
Teacher: Shen Jing 2p
Duration 32 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on August 23, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Thickness attack Lecture 3How to use thickness to attack
lecture 3
Teacher:
Shen Jing 2p
Duriation 32 minutes
level 20k-2d
Example level 8k-1d
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month
Created on August 31, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Direction of Attack lecture 2Direction of Attack
lecture 2
level 10k-3d
Example/exercises level 5k-2d
Teacher: ShenJing 2p
Duration 32 minutes
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on September 16, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Direction of Attack lecture 3Direction of attack
Lecture 3
Level 10k-3d
Example/exercise level 8k-2d
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p
Duraition 35 minutes
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on September 24, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Direction of attack lecture 4Direction of attack
Lecture 4
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p
English speaking: Jennie Shen 2p
Duration: 38 min.
Created on November 18, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Thickness attack Lecture 4Thickness attack
Lecture 4
How to use thickness to kill
level 10k-5d
Duration 45minutes
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month Created on November 25, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Direction of Attack lecture 5Direction of attack
Lecture 5
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p
English speaking: Jennie Shen 2p
Duration: 32 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on December 13, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Thickness attack Lecture 5How to use thickness to attack
Lecture 5
Level: 5k-5d
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p
Example level : pro games
Duration 43 minutes
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month Created on December 21, 2006 by Jennie ShenJing 2p.
- Leaning attack lecture 1leaning attack leture 1
- Sacrificing stones
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Sacrificing stones is not just interesting, but it is really necessary in the game of Go. Because if we try to save every stone, we will stuck on small local fighting, and forget the global.
But it is so hard for us to even just give up one stone!
By taking our course on sacrificing, we hope you will find out it is so much fun to sacrifice stones. And after watching the lectures you will be able to sacrifice stones in your own games, and win more.
Total 8 lectures.
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p- Sacrificing stones lecture 1Sacrificing stones
Lecture 1
Level 30k-3d
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p
Duration: 33 min.
Pay 1 euro watch 1 month Created on January 16, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 2Scrificing stones
Lecture 2
level: 20k-1k
Teacher: Jennie Shen 2p
Duration, 35minutes
Created on January 25, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 3Sacrificing Stones
Lecture 3
Level: 20k - 1d
Teacher Jennie Shen 2p
Duration: 35 minutes
Created on February 13, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 4Sacrificing stones
Lecture 4
level: 10k-3d
example level : 4k-pro game
Duration : 33 minutes Created on March 11, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 5Sacrificing stones
Lecture 5
Level: 5k-5d
time: 38minutes.
Example and exercise level: kgs 3k -- pro games Created on March 29, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 6Sacrificing stones
Lecture 6
Level: 5k-5d
Example level: pro games
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p
Time: 37minutes Created on April 11, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 7Sacrificing stones
Lecture 7
Level: 5k-5d
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p
Examples: pro games.
Time: 36 minutes. Created on April 29, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - Sacrificing stones lecture 8Sacrificing stones
Lecture 8
Level: 5k-5d
Teacher: Jennie Shen
Beautiful sacrificing in pro games.
game 1: Guli vs heyelin (河野临）
game 2: Changhao vs Choichohan
game 3: Kongjie vs Qiujun
game 4: Leechangho vs Changhao
Duration: 55min. Created on May 14, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p.
- Sacrificing stones lecture 1Sacrificing stones
- All about invasion
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This series of lectures covers many of the basic variations that are involved in invasions. Ming Jiu clearly explains the details based on his years of experience teaching Western players. Each lecture contains many variations. The student may begin with lesson one, or may go directly to any of the lessons.
Teacher: Ming Jiu 7p
Level: 30 kyu to 5 dan.
- All about invasion Lecture 1This is the first lecture on All about invasion. Our teacher is Mingjiu 7p
There is a little porblem at the beginning of the lecture, it starts only at 6:46 minute. So take a beer first, or move the bar to 6:46 and press the button '>'.
Duration: 40min.
Created on February 27, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 2Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 42min.
Created on March 4, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 3Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 41min.
Created on March 16, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 4Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Black 3 plays from this direction. If you want to know how to handle it, don't miss this lecture.
Duration: 41min. Created on March 31, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 5Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
If you like to play star point, you must not miss this lecture.
Duration: 39min.
Created on April 14, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 6Teacher: MingJiu Jiang 7p
In this lecture, we will study white invasion moves at A and B.
Duration: 41 min. Created on May 2, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 7All about invasion
Lecture 7
We will study white's invasion moves at A and B.
Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 41 min. Created on May 24, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 8Teacher: MingJiu 7p
Duration: 40 min. Created on June 2, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 9All about invasion
Lecture 9
Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 37 minutes
Created on June 14, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 10All about invasion
Lecture 10
Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 39 minutes
Created on June 23, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 11Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 41 min. Created on August 10, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 12
Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 40 min. Created on August 26, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 13-AAll about invasion
Lecture 13-A
Teacher Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 42 min. Created on September 4, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 13-BAll about invasion
Lecture 13-B. The continuation of Lecture 13_A.
Teacher Mingjiu 7p
Duration: 42min. Created on September 7, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 14All about invasion
Lecture 14.
Teacher Mingjiu 7p
Do you know how to invade the white position?
Duration: 40 min. Created on September 22, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 15All about invasion
Lecture 5
Teacher Mingjiu 7p
Black invades at A is a typical mistake. B is a good move. In this lecture Mingjiu will explain all the variations about both A and B.
Please notice the lecture starts at 1:09 min.
Duration: 42 min. Created on October 13, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 16 (3.3_A)All about invasion Lecture 16 (3.3_A)
Teacher: Mingjiu 7p
3.3 point is important for territory, attacking and defending. So it will be very useful to learn the variations after the invasion move at 3.3 point and the ideas behind them. In this first lecture about 3.3 point invasion, mingjiu will explain us when we can invade at the 3.3 point, and some basic variations around it.
Duration: 41min. Created on October 25, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 17 (3.3_B)All about invasion
Lecture 17 (3.3_B)
Teacher MingJiu
Level: up to 5d
For many players, black move at 4 is still new. In this lecture, Mingjiu will show us the details about this move.
Duration 40 min. Created on November 4, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 18 (3.3_C)All about invasion
Lecture 18 (3.3_C)
Teacher: MingJiu 7p
White invades at 3.3 point in both corners, but in one corner black has a small keima, and in the upper right corner black has big keima. What is the difference?
Duration: 45 min.
Created on November 18, 2007 by MingJiu Jiang 7p. - All about invasion Lecture 19 (3.3_D)
All about invasion 19 (3.3_D)
Teacher: Guo Juan 5p
Level: 10k - 5dDuration: 44 minutes
Created on August 26, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - All about invasion Lecture 20
All about invasion 20
Teacher: Guo Juan 5p
Level: 10k - 5dDuration: 41 minutes
Created on August 30, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p.
- All about invasion Lecture 1This is the first lecture on All about invasion. Our teacher is Mingjiu 7p
- MiddleGameTraining
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Basic training is very important for our improvement . In this step by step MiddleGameTraining programme, we pay very much attention to basic ideas and principles. There are three levels: A, B and C. From 30k to 5 dan.
All the problems are from real games. Total 15 lectures
Step by step, you will train like a pro.
Level A: 30k - 10k
Level B: 10k - 1d
Level C: 1d - 5d
Teachers:
Guo Juan 5p
Jennie Shen 2p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5d
Jennie Shen 2p- MiddleGameTraining-A-1Middle game training level A
Lecture 1
30k - 20k
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5p
All the problems are from real 30k-15kgames. Created on April 26, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - MiddleGameTraining-A-2Middle game training level A
Lecture 2
30k - 10k
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 49 min. Created on May 8, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - MiddleGameTraining-A-3Middle game training level A
Lecture 3
30k - 10k
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 50 min. Created on May 20, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - MiddleGameTraining-A-4Middle game training level A
Lecture 4
Level: 30k - 10k
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 53 min. Created on May 28, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - MiddleGameTraining-A-5Middle game training level A
Lecture 5
Level: 30k - 10k
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 43 min. Created on June 5, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - MiddleGameTraining-B-1Middle game training level B
Lecture 1
10k-1d
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English Speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 51 min.
Created on June 17, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining-B-2Middle game training level B
Lecture 2
10k-1d
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English Speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 46 min.
Created on June 26, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining-B-3Middle game training level B
Lecture 3
Level: 10k-1d
Teacher: Jennie Shen
Duration: 57 min. Created on July 11, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining-B-4Middle game training B
Lecture 4
Level: 10k-1d
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p
Duration: 48minuts Created on July 20, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining-B-5Middle game training B
Lecture 5
Level: 10k-1d
Teacher: Jennie ShenJing 2p
Duration: 54 min. Created on August 1, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining-C-1Middle game training
Level C
Lecture 1
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 53 min. Created on October 5, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining C-2Middle game training
Level C
Lecture 2
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 46 min. Created on October 21, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining C-3Middle game training
Level C
Lecture 3
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 52 min.
Created on November 15, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining C-4Middle game training
Level C
Lecture 4
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 50 min. Created on December 9, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p. - MiddleGameTraining-C-5Middle game training
Level C
Lecture 5
Teacher: Jennie Shen
English speaking: Jennie Shen
Duration: 54 min. Created on December 20, 2007 by Jennie ShenJing 2p.
- MiddleGameTraining-A-1Middle game training level A
- Invasion in real games
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In this series of lectures, we will teach how to invade and handle invasions, in real games. All the example games are from our students.
This is also the follow-up course for ''All about invasion''.
Teachers:
Mingjiu 7p, Guo Juan 5p
- Invasion in real games - 1
Invasion in real games
Level: 10k - 5d
Lecture 1
Two example games in this lecture
By Mingjiu Jiang 7pDuration: 39 Minutes
Created on August 25, 2010 by MingJiu Jiang 7p.
Please take a look at them before you watch the lecture. - Invasion in real games - 2
Invasion in real games
Lecture 2
There are two example games.
By Mingjiu 7pDuration: 39 minutes
Created on August 31, 2010 by MingJiu Jiang 7p.
- Invasion in real games - 1
Please click on a collection to see all the lectures within.