This tutorial is meant to help beginners get an idea of stone development. Good stone development will make your local position solid, strong, and efficient, and eventually this good local position will be converted into territory.

The rules of Go are simple, but learning how to build, connect, and develop your stones efficiently is neither easy nor simple. Because Go is complex, it is impossible to memorize all the correct plays in local positions. But by studying standard positions, you can learn what reasonable play looks like and apply it to other cases. That is the purpose of this tutorial.

I assume you are familiar with elementary Go concepts and tactics like atari, liberties, ko, territory, corner, center, tengen, net, and ladder. If you are new to Go, I recommend you look up these terms before starting this tutorial.

Please play at tengen to continue.