Star Point
By Justin Oh
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Episodes: 130
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Star Point is a podcast all about the game of Go (aka baduk or weiqi)! When you're away from the board, you can listen to Star Point for weekly discussions about how to improve, personal anecdotes, and general appreciation for the beauty of the game. Hosted and produced by Justin Oh.
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130: Do we need yet another Go server?
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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129: How Go Encourages Us to Use Our Brains
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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128: Cultural Pollination, Popular vs. Visible, Rank Relativity w/ Travis (All Things Go)
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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127: Balance your game with the Over-Under Method
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May 25, 2026 |
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126: How to Strategize in Go
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May 18, 2026 |
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125: What It’s Like to Be a 14-Year-Old Go Player in Japan w/ Kai
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May 11, 2026 |
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124: Are games decided by “effort”?
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May 04, 2026 |
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123: The Purpose of a Stone
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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122: Can Go Be a Cozy Game? Dissolving the Stress of Go
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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121: The Beginner Go Experience
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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120: Getting Rid of Bad Habits, Fear of Playing Go, Japanese vs AGA Ranks
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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119: Developing Your Go-cabulary
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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118: One Stone, Two Stones, Three Stones
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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117: Essential Go Terms
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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116: AlphaGo to ChatGPT - Who are we in the age of AI?
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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115: Why Go Should Be Your Next Hobby
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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114: Should Go be an Olympic sport?
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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113: What makes Go a "good" game?
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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112: How to Count
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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111: How I Defeated My Arch-Nemesis and Rival, Akira Toya
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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110: Inner Growth vs. External Growth: The Gaming DNA of a Go Player
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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109: How to Get Good at Go (and anything else)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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108: 2025 Year-in-Review
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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107: Go Commentating is Really Fun!
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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106: How do we make Go more exciting to watch?
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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105: Answering Reddit Newbies
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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104: What would Spongebob's Go rank be?
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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103: Bring Kibitzing Back!
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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102: Is Go Just a Game?
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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101: The Salty Crew of Go Skill
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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100: Rating 100 Go Proverbs!
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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99: Does Go feel like a chore?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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98: How to play Solitaire Go (Rube Goldberg Go)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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97: Go Deserved Better from Nintendo
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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96: Lee Sedol’s Appearance in The Devil's Plan, Wall Go
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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95 (Season 3 Premiere): A New Pro, The 1st American World Champion
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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94 (Season 2 Finale): My Fiancée’s Thoughts on Go w/ Kim
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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93: Seeds & Roots Lecture
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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92: I ranked up!
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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91: Starting a Club, Engaging Newbies w/ Wyatt
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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90: What You Should Know Before Playing on Fox
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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89: Answers from Dan Players
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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88: The Match (2025) - Movie Review
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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87: Questions for Dan Players
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May 26, 2025 |
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86: How to Do a Game Autopsy and Analyze AI DNA
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May 19, 2025 |
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85: Black Box Thinking
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May 12, 2025 |
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84: Should you give up on Go?
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May 05, 2025 |
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83: Blunders, Treating Each Rank Equally, Cho Hun-hyun’s Thoughts on The Match
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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82: Study Plan Workshop
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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81: The Four Houses of Go
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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80: Go-Adjacent Board Games
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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79: The Holistic View of Improvement
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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78: Empty Triangle Math
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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77: Escaping Learned Helplessness in the AI Era
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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76: Magnus Carlsen talks Go, 1st Nanyang Cup, Cheating, The Stone (2013)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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75: The Match (승부) Trailer, Feeding Your Passion, Listener Go Variants
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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74: Have I lost my respect for Go?
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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73: Rating Go Variants!
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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72: My Go Equipment
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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71: Lidgate - The LG Cup Rules Controversy
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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70: Sean & Tin play Blind Go!
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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69: What Go Teaches You About Life
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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68: Evolution of Greed & Scorched Earth Go
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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67: How to FEEL Like a Pro
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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66: Reacting to Myself from 2023, End-of-year Review
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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65: Correspondence Go
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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64: Why I Love Go
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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63: The Classic of Weiqi (Chapters 7-13)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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62: Don't think! FEEEEEEEEEEL
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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61: Cognitive Development of Children Through Go
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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60: What Go Teachers Get Wrong
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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59: Psychological Barriers to Ranking Up
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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58: Go as Art, The Mystery of Learning w/ Sean
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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57: How to Take Study Notes for Go
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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56: Why Do We Play Go? w/ Sean & Tin
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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55: My First Go Tournament
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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54: How to Get to Single-Digit Kyu
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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53: Is it Bad to Play Against AI? w/ Tin
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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52: The Complex Problem of AI Cheating
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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51: Breakthrough to SDK w/ Sean
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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50: The Girl Who Played Go, Japanese "Aesthetic" Play Style
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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49 (Season 2 Premiere): Honinbo Dosaku
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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48 (Season 1 Finale): OGS Rapid Time Discussion, The Queen’s Gambit – Go Edition
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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47: The Classic of Weiqi (Chapters 1-6)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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46: Why Go Isn’t More Popular, Exciting OGS Updates
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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45: 7 Reasons to Get a Go Teacher
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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44: Finding the Story of the Game
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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43: How to Do Tsumego (Life & Death) the Right Way
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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42: Go vs. Chess Listener Mail
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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41: Evaluating Verb vs. Noun Quality with Telegraph Go
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May 27, 2024 |
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40: Otake Hideo's Opening Theory Made Easy
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May 20, 2024 |
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39: Go vs. Chess
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May 13, 2024 |
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38: Listener Mail Catchup! Jigo Discussion, Go Tournament Nuances, and More
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May 06, 2024 |
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37: Field Interviews at the Los Angeles Open!
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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36: My Experience at the Los Angeles Open 2024
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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35: Draws Should Be Allowed! And Other Hot Takes
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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34: Tips for Using AI, Lee Sedol's Google Interview
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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33: How My Friend Got to 1 Dan, Big Ideas vs. Experience, Switching Gears
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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32: Diagnosing Your Go Condition
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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31: Practicing Go Like a Musician, Being Patient with Ourselves
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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30: Man vs. Machine, AI's Impact on Go
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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29: How to Teach Go to a Complete Beginner
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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28: Following Principles to True Understanding
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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27: Kyu Epiphanies, Basic Opening Principles, My Middlegame Weakness
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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26: Shell, Slate, Yunzi, Melamine, Glass, Stones, Stones, Stones!
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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25: Playing Lots of Games, The 10,000 Hour Rule
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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24: Playing Dirty, False Gote, Trick Plays, Booby traps!
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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23: Go in Pop Culture, Celebrities Who Play Go
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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22: My Secret Training Technique, Spaced Repetition, The Woodpecker Method
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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21: The Zen Mind of a Beginner
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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20: What if you never reach 1 dan?
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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19: The Mental & Psychological Dimension of Go, End-of-Year Review & Reflection
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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18: Do Go books make you stronger? My Go Book Reviews & Recommendations
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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17: Strategy vs. Tactics
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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16: Training Your Reading Ability and the Nature of Reading
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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15: Go Technology of Today and Tomorrow, SGF Editors, Samsung Cup Round 1
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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14: The Science of Learning, The State of Go Content
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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13: How to Review Your Own Games
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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12: My Go Autobiography
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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11: Go in "Knives Out," Challenging the Handicap System
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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10: The Benefits of Studying Joseki, Learning How to Play "Normal" Moves
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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9: Are Fast Games Bad for You?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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8: Things I Wish I Knew as a DDK, Multiple Dimensions of Learning
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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7: Byo-yomi, Fischer, Canadian, and more!
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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6: I Met Nick Sibicky
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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5: Ladder Anxiety & Training Mentality
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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4: The Importance of Winning!
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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3: Go Etiquette, Rudeness, & Meta-gaming
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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2: What's Your Style of Play?
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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1: The Language of Go, 2023 NAGF Pro Quals
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Aug 21, 2023 |