Interactive Correspondence Course

The correspondence course has now been running for four years and continues to attract new players from all over the world. I am now able to accept cheques in most major currencies, enquire for details of exchange rates.

The course is run in two phases.

Phase 1

You complete a detailed questionnaire about your go, how you think about it, what you want to expand on and how much time and effort you wish to devote to it.
I then send you a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of your game, with recommendations for how to build on your present skills and what to study next.

This phase costs £25 or US $50 or Euro50

Phase 2

If you like the style, you can then join the second phase of the course, in which I construct explanatory articles and collections of problems and send these together with comments on your games, records of professional games illustrating features of the other articles and recommendations for further reading; and you send game scores for me to analyse, answers to the exercises, and details of positions or ideas which you are having difficulty with.

This phase costs £75 or US $150 or Euro150 for each 8 packages of material.

Commentaries on your games can concentrate on any aspect you want to see expanded upon, and will include recommendations for adapting your style to suit your particular strengths as well as pointers to sources for widening your vocabulary. Where the existing literature does not contain suitable explanations, I will write new articles for your personal use.
You choose your own speed to work at, and control your own subject matter in as much detail as you want.
Material will be sent out by post or by Email. The intention is to make the material available in as wide a range of media as possible.

How to join the Course

Choose from the following:

send me an Email specifying the form in which you would like to recieve the questionnaire, now available as:
- Printed document by post.
- html document, with go diagrams in gif format.
- plain text, with diagrams in sgf format as separate files
- plain text, with diagrams in ishi format as separate files
- Word file
And the form in which you would like to pay (Cheques by post, £25 or US $50 or Euro 50)
Or write to me at 22 Keytes Lane, Barford, Warwicks CV35 8EP.
Or Telephone +44 1926 624445
Or fill out the prepared form at http://www.jklmn.demon.co.uk/form.html

Or clip out the form below and fill in the spaces:

Registration Form


I would like to recieve the questionnaire for the first phase 
of Matthew Macfadyen's 1998 Go Correspondence course:         (-------)

I would like to register now for both phases of the course    (-------)                             

Name:                                  Grade:

Postal Address:


EMail Address:

What medium would you prefer to receive the questionnaire in?

By post, on paper.		-----
By post, on 3.5" Floppy disk	-----
By Fax				-----
By EMail			-----

If you would like the material in computer readable form, do you prefer:

An html file, with the diagrams as gifs.

A windows write file.

A Word97 word processor file.

Plain text, with the diagrams as separate files in sgf format.

Plain text, with the diagrams as separate files in ishi format.

Other (Please specify)


I would prefer to pay by:

UK Sterling cheque (£25 for phase 1, £100 for both)

US Dollar cheque (US $50 for phase 1, US $200 for both)

Eurocheque (£25 for phase 1, £100 for both)

Cheque in Euros (50 for phase 1, 200 for both)

Other (Please specify)

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