Go Magic Reviews 446

Very interesting lessons well structured and with pleasant humour.
Congratulations and thanks for this great work !

Fantastic! Overjoyed

I've been playing go for many years (currently 7k on OGS), but never seriously took lessons, or play in a club. I'm using Go Magic to put a bit of theory and structure in my practice. The videos are fun and full of good advice, and I love the gamification of the learning.

Well constructed and digestible lessons. The skill tree, especially "ghost mode", has been great for my early development!

I think the videos are well thought out and planned, they are short, clear and well explained, I like the evaluations and the exercises

I have played GO since 1975 but I have had problems finding good introductions online for complete beginners.
This is the ONLY one I have found so far! It's really, really good! Many instructors complicate things but here everything is crystal clear.
RECOMMENDED!!!
If you are at least 10-kyu, I recommend dwyrin, who plays and analyzes games mostly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. His "Murder Monday" is something I look forward to. He plays on every level from 7-8-kyu until 9-dan.
He is about the only one I feel I can learn something from—except when there is private tutoring from a pro, of course.

The best platform to learn Go. Very interesting presentation of the material.
Overall, the platform itself and all the content in it are very friendly to newbies. Thanks to all the creators of this project for their work.

I have played go for close to 15 years and am currently 4k on OGS. My training has always been on-and-off over the years and largely unstructured. I decided to give the site a shot and went with the Typical Mistakes 2.0 course. I thought I’d be sitting through some boring, too-basic stuff to get a few nuggets to shore up my game, but each lesson was entertaining and helpful in some way. I’m looking forward to going through more courses. M I’m also having a great time with the skill tree and spend my free moments throughout the day solving puzzles. I feel like I’ve improved a lot in my reading ability using the skill tree.

My only suggestion, perhaps specific to the typical mistakes course, would be if there was a final video quickly summarizing the key concepts of the full course so I could refer back to it without necessarily needing to go through each lesson again.

I really enjoy the video and practice interface! Thanks for the nice work to help me improve my go game!

Apparently I won something in the recent essay contest, but wasn't notified. I only found out a week or two ago when I asked. I was told it was too late to benefit from my winning. Too late, too bad.

Just perfect … thank you for doing a great job

Go Magic is just what I've been looking for. I wanted a way to learn Go that was similar to how I used Chessable to learn chess. The Go videos are broken up into easy-to-understand sections. The quizzes tell me if I understood or need to review the video. I've now joined to continue with other content on Go Magic.

Great lessons, modern platform and community features.

I guess it depends on personal feelings towards the teacher, but every course author is an experienced player. Each course I went through was loaded with knowledge presented in an approachable way. Specifically, the interactive parts make it outstanding among other online go content.
The next point is Duolingo-style gamification (although not as aggressive as Green Bird :)). You may love it, or you may hate it, but it works for me.
Its nice, modern appearance (which still isn't standard for go-related web pages) is another pro.
All in all, gomagic.org is great content wrapped in a pleasant experience.

awesome app to learn go, the best one I've tried by far

Really well made site with insightful videos that help you improve. The customer support is also grey

An innovative and powerful way to learn go. Fantastic customer service.

From 25k+ to 15k in not even 3 months ! All thanks to GoMagic.

Everything about your app works well and is great for a beginner like me, thank you