Hu's Teaching Method

Hu sometimes teach players about 5 to 12 ranks lesser strength on KGS.

I find that administering a drubbing and then a mildly humiliating review is not the best teaching technique I can muster. My teaching games have the following characteristics, as best as I am able:

Table of contents Goal: Help Student Find Winning Ways For Beginners with a Little Experience Use the Socratic Method Game Markup Chat Interaction

Goal: Help Student Find Winning Ways

• Emphasize analysis, ideas, strategy, whole-board thinking.

• Grant student undos

• No time regime. Thus there is ample time to discuss any position deeply.

• Review sequences during the game while the reading is fresh in the student's mind, rather than later in a review.

• Ask the student if they have any questions to speak up.

For Beginners with a Little Experience

• Teach them the Triplet of Triplets.

Use the Socratic Method

• Ask the student lots of questions about their thinking.

• In particular, ask the student at key stages to analyze the board.

• When the student plays a poor move, go back and discuss it right away. Don't wait for the review. Let the student search for a different move.

• However, it is often good to let them continue a bit further to see what kind of trouble the bad move can produce before going back.

Game Markup

• Use triangles to mark stone referred to.

• Use circles to mark interesting empty points on the board and potential moves.

• Use squares to mark territory or potential territory.

• Use Option --> Label Variations --> Variations

Chat Interaction

• A casual, but controlled interaction with the observers

• Allow questions and comments from the observers

• I expect that a question without a respondent's name attached is to be answered by the student first.

• I will quickly set the game to Quiet mode when observers get verbose. I grant the student access, of course. If the bothersome observer leaves, turn it back to Normal Chat.

This way of teaching often takes more time than a simple drubbing / review but it aims at deeper understanding.