KitaniHouse
Work in progress It is my hope that Kitani House will eventually become a house of the Sabaki Go Club.
Initially Kitani House was called Shusaku House, but the name was changed to reflect the teching nature of the house. Kitani Minoru was reputed bringing Go to a new age along with Go Seigen. However what has been missed by many is his contribution to the world of Go by teaching. His dojo had trained virtually every top Go player in Japan in the second half of the last century. My hope is that Kitani House will gain the same reputation in training online go players, hopefully to the point where some can become insei's.
Some precepts of the house will be:
- Members by invitation only.
If one observes the
- Seriousmindedness of members.
- Teaching things not in books.
The main goal will be to provide a kind of mentoring or coaching, rather then direct teaching. For example, in many teaching games,during the review the teacher will often go over the game and say this move was bad or show a sequence. While this technique has some value, I do not believe it is the most efficient way. Instead I believe reviewing a game and discussing the persons strategy and attitude is a better way. Or, if not better, it touches on some intangibles that generally are not taught in books or by many teachers. The kind of comments I would like to see are: "Over and over again, you become overly aggresive (or passive), which hurts you severely." Or