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I have been teaching Go professionally for about 15 years. I am not so strong a player, but I have had much Professional training and enjoy passing the basics along. My students range from beginner to 3 dan. I charge $25 per hour, with lessons usually lasting 2 hours.

Here is a list of the professionals I have studied with. The higher on the list, the more time I have studied with them. I play at the 6d level.

	Yi Lun Yang 7p
	Feng Yun 9p
	Hu Shi? 5p
	Ju Jo Jiang 9p
	Janice Kim 1p
	James Kerwin 1p

Starting January 10, 2006, free public lessons will be starting in the LGD room on the KGS server.

Update Feb 9th: Tuesday lesson moved to Saturday.

Update Mar 23rd: Only 12 lessons left, so we will only do one lesson a week, the Friday one.

Schedule: (Pacific Standard Time)

  Friday   7-8pm PST (02-03:00 UTC) next day

To convert these times to your own Timezone, follow these links. and change the second Location to your own.

[ext] Friday Lesson

xela: I think shygost actually uses his local time, which is PST during the northern hemisphere winter, and PDT (one hour later) during summer. Also, I think 7 pm PST is 03:00 UTC, not 02:00. And the link above will give the right answers in northern hemisphere summer, but not winter; I'm not sure how to fix it so it gives the right answer always. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points!

cliftut: Actually, it sounds like it's working fine. The problem you're encountering is that all it does is convert time zones, it doesn't account for daylight savings. As a result, it is going to be off by an hour for half of the year. The only way to help with this would be to put up a note telling people to subtract(? correct me if I'm wrong) an hour from the time it gives you during the winter (daylight savingstime to be exact)

xela: No, it does correct for daylight savings. The site lets you enter a date: you can check that different dates give different results. The link above is for a specific date.

Publicly funded, hopefully funding will continue to allow the lessons to continue! Shygost is an excellent teacher. These lectures are aimed at the kyu levels and are designed to show how to think rather than where to move. Do try to make them.

An archive of shygost's lessons is available at [ext] http://tengen.bur.st . The archive includes a copy of the original SGF of the lesson, an audio file of shygost's lesson, as well as a transcribed SGF file. If you find problems with any of the transcribed files, please drop sduff a note at Shygost/Lessons. This page also contains links to any transcriptions which haven't made it to the tengen page yet.

I record my lessons with Shygost here - [ext] http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=shygost&sort=-publicdate --- 'metaperl' on KGS.

If you are interested in donating for those lectures, you can paypal to lance@kemperpainting.com or you can contact NannyOgg at plomp@together.net if you'd rather send a check.

If you would like to see a topic covered, please add it to the topics page, or add your support for the topics already listed.

Talk about shygost lectures on the Shygost forum.

Something I wanted to do is to organise people who record lessons so that a near as comlete collection of shygost's public lectures can be created, the first few steps are on this page Shygost Lesson Exchange.

(Edited by DavidB January 2, 2006, NannyOgg January 11, 2006, xela 6th May 2006.)


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The List

Thad Those who have taken a class from shy have heard him talk of "the list". You can get the list by emailing him. To save all that email, here it is:

The most basic list:

  • Am I ok? (am I about to get hurt or hassled?).
  • Is the opponent ok? (can I chase or hassle the opponent to get profit?).
  • Where is big area (going for wide area or big points).

Priorities in the opening:

  1. Playing in response to issues (things that are too good to pass up or to let happen, i.e. I have a wall and can use it to attack or extend from).
  2. When your 3-3 or 4-4 stone is approached, respond (unless something else is urgent).
  3. Playing in empty corners.
  4. Playing in unfinished corners (single stones on the 3-4, 3-5 and 5-4 are unfinished corners)
  5. Start a joseki in a “2 stone finished” corner that is to your advantage.
  6. Approaching the 3-3 or 4-4 stone.
  7. Sides.
  8. Center.

General rules:

  • Don’t get surrounded in sente.
  • When living or getting points: Corner first, side second, center third.
  • To attack: Take away a running direction from him. The one that gives you most profit or that makes it hardest on him (usually corner first, side second, center third).
  • When chasing: Getting cut is fine (chase with the knight's move).
  • Don’t contact weak stones (weak groups might be ok to contact, not weak stones).
  • Do contact strong stones (if you can’t mess with the stone later, it’s strong).

Of course all these rules will be broken at the right time. But these basic ideas will help you maneuver through situations.


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