Try PlayGo.gg

I've recently been spending quite a bit of time on a new site for playing go and studying about go.  It is called PlayGo.gg  You can also get there by typing gothegame.com as well, which is how I found the site initially, and how I still get there. It hopes to be, for go, what chess.com is for Chess, and I believe that it may succeed. Currently you can do everything there for free. Eventually there will be fees involved which you can preview on the site.

I created a new activity under my Miscellaneous category for Go The Game, and ended up spending three hours there.  

Here is what I see when I log in.

It is a nice clean interface which is easy to understand and to navigate.

The only thing I have done so far there is to work through the lessons under Learn.  In spite of being 9k, I decided to start from the very beginning, and I am glad I did. I am currently working through 23 kyu problems. The site keeps track of how far I have gotten on my lessons, and it lets me pick up where I left off. When I click on Learn, I can redo problems or scroll down to where I can continue from where I left off.

I highly recommend these lessons for beginners.  The teacher goes to great lengths to explain in detail what is happening in the problems.  He shows every possible variation that can happen.  This is a level of detail I have found nowhere else for beginner problems. I expect, as the levels increase, that the level of detail will decrease as students are expected to be able to see the consequences of certain actions. However, at the very beginner levels this high level of detail is very refreshing.  Get your lessons in while you can watch as many as you want with no restrictions.

BenKyo Baduk has done a video about the site which you can watch here

And now for my weekly Go Activities Report:

My week was a little short on go activity with fewer than 20 hours.  As usual, my top activity was Live Play.  My newest activity, Go The Game, took second place. I also spent a good deal of time watching others play.  I can only assign an activity to one category, so a good portion of the time I spend on the category Twitch - Patrick is actually watching someone else play, and then part of it would be watching someone else review, but I let it just be covered by Twitch - Patrick.  Logging my time isn't so much about being 100% accurate as it is about counting up the time spent, and feeling that I have put in an adequate amount of effort.

It was not an especially good week in terms of my game performance.  I played six games, all with human beings, which is a plus.  However, I was unable to win a single one of them. They did turn out to be good material for a lesson with Clossius. He actually made me feel better about a couple of these games.  I am taking my lessons with Clossius on alternate weeks.

I'll have a new Go Activities Report next week, and hopefully something else interesting to write about.