Greetings, my name is Adam Marquis and I am a Physics grad student.
I really enjoy giving teaching games and reviews on KGS under username Makar [5k]. Please give me a message and we'll play!
I've recently started a workbook and problem series for beginner players - players who know the rules but don't have mastery of them yet. I'd like to have lots of comments on this, so please leave them here or e-mail me at adam at polymathsblade dot com.
Currently the rules of Go and the beginner's life and death tutorial are up.
Here is the link:
http://www.polymathsblade.com/goworkbooks.shtml
and the preface:
I'm not happy with how I learned go.
I first learned the rules, or at least read about them, as many do nowadays: the internet. Resources for the rank beginner are everywhere. <The Interactive Way to Go> is a wonderful example, the best I’ve seen at playing mentor to a student, making sure they’ve as few misconceptions as possible. After one has picked up some experience, has developed an understanding of the rules and can see the board as a go player does, there are even more wonderful resources. Sensei’s Library, Go Problems, and The Go Teaching Ladder make for great study.
What about the in-between time, the proverbial "Lose your First 50 Games as Quickly as possible" period? What exists to help go players through learning the absolute basics, which can be frustrating indeed? I perceived a dearth of resources for these players when I was there, and I still do.
I hope that these workshops start to fill that gap, so we can get people over the initial hump and fully enjoying the world’s most beautiful game.
~Adam J. Marquis
Also, I've also started archiving old reviews and teaching games cleaned up:
http://www.polymathsblade.com/goreview.shtml