Recently I joined a go club at my school, but there are many beginners, and there’s no teacher who can teach us go, so I’m the one who ends up teaching. However, I don’t know how to teach properly. Can you tell me what is the knack of teaching? Consultation Two: Ms. Nishi Hello, Ms. Nishi. H’m. This is a tough question. I have many opportunities to teach, so I will just tell you a few points that have occurred to me. The first point you have to be careful about is not to teach too much at once. For example, with beginners, you should first explain about playing alternately on the intersections, tell them that the player with more territory wins, and explain how to capture stones. You should spend just five to ten minutes on the explanation. Then you should get them to play games on 6x6 or 9x9 boards. When they run into situations they don’t understand, you should explain them one by one. Here, too, you should focus on just one point at a time. If a ko appears, explain the ko rule; explain how the game ends, how to count territory . . . If you try to teach everything at once, beginners will end up absorbing hardly anything. Also, few people will understand something after just one explanation, so explain the same thing gently a number of times. Professional players have put out a number of books on teaching beginners, so you can find concrete guidance in these. Just try skimming through one of these books. I recommend a book that is simple and easy to understand. At first, teaching may not be easy, but you’ll get better with experience. Through teaching people, I myself have made new discoveries and I have grown in various ways. Teaching is not easy, but I’m sure this experience will be useful to you in the future. Good luck!