Teach Yourself Go

If you are looking for the book "Teach Yourself Go" by Charles Matthews, then go to this page.

Ways to teach yourself Go:

• Play Go:
  • Play Go in Different Ways
  • Don't be afraid of 19x19
  • Don't be afraid of strong players or very much stronger players

• Review:
  • Use the reviewing and teaching software of the Kiseido Go Server (KGS) and the KGS Tutors
  • Review professional games available from sources such as Commented Pro Games from gobase.org and try to play from memory
  • Review your own games
  • Get (your) games reviewed by software (e.g. GNU Go's --replay feature)
  • Review games of players just a few stones better, looking for a few techniques you can easily grasp
  • Review other people's games for them
  • Participate in the Go Teaching Ladder

• Read the extensive and growing articles at Sensei's Library (explicit link http://senseis.xmp.net) including Beginner Study Section

• Teach. Be a Sensei.
  • "If you really want to learn a subject, teach it."
  • Teach weaker players.
  • Even a weak player can teach the rules to a beginner
  • Passing on knowledge strengthens the community and makes others more willing to help you.

• Translate an untranslated Go book from Japanese, Korean, or Chinese
• Solve Go Problems online at goproblems.com
• Join a Go club at one of the Go Places
• Read Go books
• Create and explore variations in lines of play on a goban or with Go editing programs
• "Reading is the muscle of Go". Practice!
• Practice calming techniques and meditation techniques while playing
• Lose emotional attachment to winning and losing
• Apply Study Techniques
• Follow Terrence's Road Map to 13k

Do something with Go every day and you will get stronger.

See also: Benjamin Teuber / Guide To Become Strong

See also: Omaha Kyu By Kyu Go Learning Checklist

Though I have not had the pleasure of reading Charles Matthews' Teach Yourself Go book, I do teach myself Go. In truth, this is not a solitary pursuit because many people have helped me. Like most people, I have not taken formal lessons. I have been the beneficiary of many kind reviewers of my games on KGS and some free lessons there. Sensei's Library becomes ever more useful as it deepens and extends. -- Hu of KGS