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Given all the interest in sudden interest in go in this thread, anyone have a sure-fire method to improve at go from double-digit kyu to single-digit kyu and am

Given all the interest in sudden interest in go in this thread, anyone have a sure-fire method to improve at go from double-digit kyu to single-digit kyu and amateur dan level?

hakuseki 13d ago
At double-digit kyu level, you should just play every day until you feel you are stuck. After you get stuck, you should pick one thing at a time to focus on improving. But the one thing should probably be related to tesuji or life and death.
- ctchocula 13d ago
  Thanks! One follow-up: Any recommended go servers to play on? OGS, Fox, Pandanet?
  - Alpha3031 13d ago
    Probably Fox would be the server with the most players but at DDK basically any would work and I think getting exposure to different playing styles would be worthwhile.
  - amcoy37 12d ago
    OGS (online-go.com) is the predominant server for players in the Western hemisphere, and provides a modern browser based UI. Fox has a larger player base, but that player base is almost entirely in Asian timezones. Fox requires downloading a not so modern client whose UI is lacking English translation. I get the feeling that Fox has a lot of bot players in the lower ranks. It can take a few minutes to get a match on OGS. When that happens, I take the opportunity to warm up with a few tsumego drills on goproblems.com
KingMob 13d ago
Binge Hikaru No Go and pay close attention to whatever Sai does. /s
jrimbault 13d ago
Handicap Go by Nagahara Yoshiaki helped me tremendously. I started playing I believe in March of 2025. I had the very good luck that one of my high school best friends is a 4 dan EGF player, and was in the French team 20 years ago. We played constantly against each other with 9 stones handicap and him teaching me a lot. But when I read that book, in a few weeks/months we went from 9 stones to only 3 stones by August 2025. and we have stayed at 3 stones since, playing very even games, with only a handful or couple of points differences. Only very recently did I win by 9.5 points. Which made me hope I had made new progress, but I had to resign in the very next game.
kqr 12d ago
Spaced repetition: https://onlymove.net/ https://onlymove.net/
kuboble 12d ago
I'm 2 dan. For a double digit kyu there are two simple things than can give you 2-3 stones boost overnight if you understand them. - don't play aji keshi. - endgame starts earlier than you think. If nothing is urgent, play the largest endgame in the corner / side of the board.

Given all the interest in sudden interest in go in this thread, anyone have a sure-fire method to improve at go from double-digit kyu to single-digit kyu and amateur dan level?

hakuseki 13d ago

At double-digit kyu level, you should just play every day until you feel you are stuck. After you get stuck, you should pick one thing at a time to focus on improving. But the one thing should probably be related to tesuji or life and death.

ctchocula 13d ago
Thanks! One follow-up: Any recommended go servers to play on? OGS, Fox, Pandanet?
- Alpha3031 13d ago
  Probably Fox would be the server with the most players but at DDK basically any would work and I think getting exposure to different playing styles would be worthwhile.
- amcoy37 12d ago
  OGS (online-go.com) is the predominant server for players in the Western hemisphere, and provides a modern browser based UI. Fox has a larger player base, but that player base is almost entirely in Asian timezones. Fox requires downloading a not so modern client whose UI is lacking English translation. I get the feeling that Fox has a lot of bot players in the lower ranks. It can take a few minutes to get a match on OGS. When that happens, I take the opportunity to warm up with a few tsumego drills on goproblems.com

KingMob 13d ago

Binge Hikaru No Go and pay close attention to whatever Sai does. /s

jrimbault 13d ago

Handicap Go by Nagahara Yoshiaki helped me tremendously. I started playing I believe in March of 2025. I had the very good luck that one of my high school best friends is a 4 dan EGF player, and was in the French team 20 years ago. We played constantly against each other with 9 stones handicap and him teaching me a lot. But when I read that book, in a few weeks/months we went from 9 stones to only 3 stones by August 2025. and we have stayed at 3 stones since, playing very even games, with only a handful or couple of points differences. Only very recently did I win by 9.5 points. Which made me hope I had made new progress, but I had to resign in the very next game.

kqr 12d ago

Spaced repetition: https://onlymove.net/ https://onlymove.net/

kuboble 12d ago

I'm 2 dan. For a double digit kyu there are two simple things than can give you 2-3 stones boost overnight if you understand them. - don't play aji keshi. - endgame starts earlier than you think. If nothing is urgent, play the largest endgame in the corner / side of the board.