You get credit, first of all, on each SGF, for your contributions.

Second, the analysis of the games, itself, will be its own reward. The things you'll learn and discover through this work will stay with you much more deeply than for anyone who'll just be reading the commentary or watching the video.

Third, you'll get to meet and work with like-minded folks, all interested in the depth of game of Go, regardless of where in the world they are.

Fourth, you'll get to learn and put in practice, with help from my teacher, a systematic and thorough method for studying pro games, which I'll summarize next.

And fifth, making this review public means that we're doing a public service for the world of Go forever: people in the world can still refer to Invincible, but will no longer be bound to it, and everyone will be able to refer to this work forever.

So, here's what the work is going to look like. We're going to make three passes for each game, one pass per week, using the core skills of the game of go. If you're not sure what those core skills are, my teacher will happily provide you with an introduction to these skills and what it means to analyze a game using each as a separate lens.

Step 1

Put game through katago with enough visits (10-20k visits per board position, probably), add relevant variations to SGF. For this step, my teacher has already volunteered

Step 2

Go through the game, focusing only on positional judgment.

Step 3

Go through the game, focusing only on direction of play.

Step 4

Go through the game, focusing only on reading.

Step 5

Put it all together!

We will cycle through the games, bringing in more into rotation. Every week, two games move to the next step. Which is to say, every week, two new games go through step 1, and when we're going full steam, every week, the reviews for two games are finished.

NOTE -- we're likely going to shift to one game per step soon, it turns out to be way more work than we expected to do even two games, so we probably won't be able to do six games per week unless there's a lot more people involved :D

A somewhat significant amount of Shusaku's 471 games are unfinished, which means sometimes we'll either /skip/ a game outright, or we might have more than two games on a given step, because less work is involved.

The guidelines for contributions are on their own page.

If you want to join the group, join my discord and express your intent!

What are the useful links?

PROJECT DISCORD LINK

https://discord.gg/BkFSWtEycY

PROJECT STREAM LINK

https://www.twitch.tv/trevoke

How about using existing information? Have you heard about Invincible?

We won't be using any source material for this project, other than the game records. There are a few reasons for this:

• Copyright law is complicated and this project is global, which makes things slightly more annoying
• This project is about getting better at doing the work, not doing research, or comparing our work to others'
• Most of all prior art didn't have katago available

Where will the project store the work?

OGS has a very convenient system showing who has created reviews for any given game. We will leverage this to connect everyone's work to each review, which will make it easier for us to find that work and include it in each synthesis step.

In practice, this means:

Each game will be uploaded to a properly named collection on OGS:

• Games with katago-curated variations will be uploaded to a "katago" collection
• Games with the synthesis of positional judgment will be uploaded to a "positional judgment" collection
• Games with the synthesis of direction of play will be uploaded to a "direction of play" collection
• Games with the synthesis of reading, finally, will be uploaded to a "final" collection

The games, once ready, will also be linked from this page.

Using Discord

The voice and text channels named after fundamental skills (positional judgment, direction of play, reading) can be used each week for the two games on each step. The synthesis voice and text channels are intended to be used on Saturdays.

Working synchronously

Use the when2meet for the month. Links are available in a private channel, visible only to group members (because when2meet doesn't have a concept of security). The table will help you find people who are available at the same time as you. (other tools and better ways to organize this are welcome)