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Biggest Problem for Beginners is Thickness
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Strategy
I (anonymous) have just started playing Go for about a couple months and one of the mistakes I was making early on and didn't find out till later was I was playing too thick. After making the correction I noticed that almost all beginners were doing this so I thought I would post about it here.
The reason for this is simple: beginners read that they should stay connected and that thickness means strength and influence. Which of course sounds great. So they start out in the corners like they were told maybe, or even at the edges too. But after that they just link stones right up next to each other building their walls right away. They're afraid to spread out because they've learned that separated stones are easily attacked and captured. And who doesn't want strength? One of the first things I learned as a beginner was if I wanted to have any territory I would have to play looser and take chances.
A few other mistakes I see from TRUE beginners are:
This is a copy of the living page "Biggest Problem for Beginners is Thickness" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |