Guided lessons

Learn Go

From captures, atari and eyes to life-and-death and ko. Every step is hands-on — get it right on the board to move on.

Play Your First Game

Play a complete 9×9 game against the AI.

The rules, capturing, two-eye life, then a real 9×9 game.

Play a real game against KataGo, move by move.

Spot captures and ataris; keep your stones safe.

Liberties, atari, running, connecting, cutting, vital points.

Double atari, ladder, snapback, net, races, cuts, shape.

Short exercises — capture, atari, life and death.

Read ladders along the edge; know when they work or fail.

Catch stones with loose nets — no atari required.

Make two eyes; kill the opponent’s eyeless groups.

Two eyes, vital points, making life, killing, ko life.

Graded tsumego: make life, kill, recognise alive shapes.

Corner shapes: the rabbity six, the pigs, the seven-space.

Throw-ins, double atari, rolling, attacking the vital point.

Gate captures, connects that fail, the standing stone.

Open in the corners, build territory, finish games.

Corners, star points, joseki, 3-3 invasion.

Thickness, sente/gote, big vs urgent, invasions.

Scoring, endgame counting, a full graduation game.

104 lessons, all authored for this site.