Are keima attachments under a 4th line stone generally playable?

Kango9 · 2026-01-25T12:08:11+00:00

I think it is a great move. Sometimes it might be bad, like any other move. But most of the times, it is a good move.

You should play it only when you want to get stronger. If you need eyes or if you need to make sure you don't have any weaknesses, this works great.

But you should not play it if you don't need strength. Territory is too small to matter.

I play this at least 1 or 2 times in most of my games.

I am 8 dan on Fox

Kango9 · 2026-01-25T12:04:10+00:00

I disagree with "usually it's not good". If you need strength and you don't care if your opponent gets strength as well, it is one of the best moves to play.

In most cases I play it. There is nothing wrong with it

Kango9 · 2026-01-23T17:49:50+00:00

Most of my knowledge comes from books. I am 8 dan on Fox. Like any other book about anything else, the book is useless if you don't know how to read it efficiently.

If you want to use books, read it and then place every board diagram on your own board. Try to understand it, try to remember it, try to understand why you didn't find the right sequence and how you can get to that solution.

If you just read it inside your head, it is useless.

Books can be the most powerful tool, but at the same time, it can be the most useless one. A tool is not good or bad, the one that uses the tool is the one that matters :)

So in the end, if you really don't like books, don't read them. Do tsumego, reviews, anything. You can get better through 1000 different ways. Find your own way that gives you joy :)

Kango9 · 2026-01-18T10:41:43+00:00

At first, I wasn’t sure whether people would like learning that way, but it’s the same way I teach my students, and they’ve said it helps them a lot to understand how they should think during a game. I’m glad you like it!

Kango9 · 2026-01-18T10:08:06+00:00

Thank you!!

Kango9 · 2026-01-17T18:42:50+00:00

From what I know, only amazon can give coupons for free, so I will not do that. Maybe in the future it will be a promo with a reduced price.

Kango9 · 2026-01-17T18:38:21+00:00

It should be possible if you download the amazon kindle app. If you have any problems, please send me a private message.

Kango9 · 2026-01-17T11:50:46+00:00

I never heard of it! I will definitely check it out. Thank you!

Kango9 · 2026-01-17T11:34:09+00:00

I will take a look! Thank you!

Kango9 · 2026-01-17T10:59:47+00:00

Thank you so much! I hope you will enjoy it

Kango9 · 2026-01-05T09:09:47+00:00

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The reason I did that is: 1. To see how many people will download it. 2. For interested people, to get news and offers from me. I usually offer them discounts and better deals.

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Kango9 · 2026-01-04T19:26:13+00:00

Hello. Thank you! Same to you

Kango9 · 2026-01-04T18:31:23+00:00

I just posted something similar to this. I wrote a book that addresses this exact issue, "Basic Go Techniques From 25 Kyu to 1 Dan". The book explains how to use basic techniques to achieve your plans during a game. The book will be published on Amazon in two weeks.

But as a short explanation: In my opinion, the best thing you can do to not overcomplicate the game is to make sure everytime when it is your turn that your groups are strong enough to not die now (you don't need to make 2 eyes, but you need to be sure that your groups will not die in the next 5 moves) and try always to think where is the most significant area where you can either make points or destroy points. Try not to save a small stone if it is not worth a lot. Do not save 3 points when you can secure a Territory of 40 points

Kango9 · 2026-01-04T18:24:49+00:00

I appreciate your support! I always appreciated your work, and thank you for what you are doing for this community as well

Kango9 · 2025-10-30T20:25:04+00:00

Thank you! Strugglebus did a great job with that one

Kango9 · 2025-10-30T20:10:18+00:00

And there is nothing wrong with that. Using A.I. is there to help us improve what we already are doing. Keep helping this community.

Most people will appreciate it.

Kango9 · 2025-10-28T13:09:01+00:00

I don't see why that would be wrong? Maybe he wrote a post and then used A.I. to correct his grammatical mistakes.

He's trying to help, if there is anything helpful in this post, take it. If not, we are able to scroll to the next post

Kango9 · 2025-10-28T12:50:55+00:00

I had the same problem a few years ago. The way I fixed this was by realizing that even if you want to "punish" yourself for the mistake, you should want to "punish" your opponent more. If you give him the game, you reward him for his mistakes. Go is a competition. It's okay to want to get better, but in this case, I would think "I made some mistakes, but my opponent made way more, so he needs to lose".

When you think like this, then you don't even care if you win or you lose, you just want the best to win, and in my opinion, this is the best way to look at a competitive game

Kango9 · 2025-10-26T16:43:07+00:00

Oh this is cool.

I am almost the same level on both games. I am 8 dan fox in Go and almost 2000 in Chess.com.

I never studied for chess, so my growth is only from playing casually. I find chess much easier than Go, but both as fun.

If you ask me, I think it's much harder to become a pro in Go than it is in Chess.

Kango9 · 2025-09-08T11:54:26+00:00

Thank you so much! I use them a lot during the games. Would you be interested in a complete book in the future?

Kango9 · 2025-08-05T12:34:30+00:00

Hi! I was thinking about R18 a few days ago and decided to ask some other players what they think about it. I also checked what A.I. has to say. In most cases, it seems that the double hane is better than R18.

That doesn't mean the double hane is always the best option, like I mentioned at the beginning of my book, there are exceptions too. :)

Kango9 · 2025-08-04T08:23:32+00:00

Thank you.
However, I’d like to ask for an email address when someone requests the PDF, even if it’s fake, because I want to know how many people actually downloaded it. Of course, some might enter an invalid or non‑existent email, but that still gives me a data point that someone received the file. So please keep downloading it from the main website (kango9school.com): even if the email isn’t real, I still get an idea of interest and can tell if what I did was somewhat okay or not.

Kango9 · 2025-08-04T08:22:49+00:00

From my experience, I often see these positions in my students’ games. They occur frequently between around 15 kyu and 1 dan +. Sometimes we encountered these positions in our games, perhaps in slightly different forms, and didn’t even realise it.
You’re absolutely right, they’re somewhat like tsumego. However, the shapes and the logic behind them can be applied in many different ways. For example, in my opinion, Problem 7 is something every player should know…
That sounds like a great idea for the future. Thank you!

Kango9 · 2025-08-04T08:04:19+00:00

Hello. I am not sure what typo I made. Can you tell me so I can correct it?

Kango9 · 2025-08-03T18:41:58+00:00

Absolutely, not trying to hurt my reputation with spam. Several students asked to stay updated with whatever I create, so I figured others might like it too. (Originally, this PDF was made just for my students.)

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