Private Lessons with Zee
These lessons are for you if you want a clear, structured way to get stronger and a coach who works directly with your own games.
- ✔ Weekly 1:1 live lessons
- ✔ In-depth review of your own games
- ✔ A custom learning plan with concrete tasks
- ✔ Full access to the Kyu Dan System
- ✔ Ongoing support between sessions for questions and positions
- • 1–2 hour live session each week
- • One of your own games reviewed every week
- • Clear study tasks and tsumego every day
You follow a defined training plan, with guidance at every step.
What’s included each month
Weekly 1:1 session (about 1–2 hours)
Every lesson follows a clear structure:
- • Review of a recent game you played
- • A teaching game with Zee
- • A review of the teaching game
The balance can shift week by week depending on what you need most.
Send one game in advance
You send Zee one recent game so he can review the key points in advance.
This makes the live review smoother, more focused, and leaves more time for questions and teaching game work.
Study plan, homework, and tsumego
After each lesson, you leave with a specific study plan. This includes:
- • Which Kyu Dan System lessons to watch
- • Which openings, tactics, or variations to review
- • Which habits or moves to pay attention to in your next games
- • Daily tsumego guidance, adjusted to your schedule:
- ○ How many problems to do each day
- ○ Which kinds of problems (life-and-death, tesuji, endgame, etc.)
- ○ Workload matched to the amount of time you realistically have
You always know exactly what to work on between sessions, and in what order.
Access to the Kyu Dan System and community
Your private coaching is supported by the full Kyu Dan System, which acts as your main study framework.
You get access to:
- • 100+ recorded lessons and tutorials on openings, principles, invasions, middle game ideas, and more
- • Structured study paths organised by topic and level
- • A long-running weekly study group
- • A focused training community
In the weekly study group, members:
- • Play games with each other
- • Watch lessons together
- • Discuss positions and sequences
- • Give each other homework based on the current topic
New themes are introduced every few weeks and the group runs continuously, so you always have a stable environment to train with peers who are also serious about improving.
Support between sessions
Between lessons, you can contact Zee whenever questions come up.
If you:
- • Meet a position you don’t understand
- • Get confused by a variation in a review or analysis
- • Want to check whether a sequence is sound
…you can send a screenshot or a whole game and ask. You do not have to wait until the next lesson to get clarification.
How a typical lesson works
Review your game live
Together you go through the critical positions and key sequences. You explain what you were thinking; Zee shows where the direction or choice of move should change. You can ask questions throughout.
Play a teaching game
Teaching games are played without handicap and guided toward positions that highlight the concepts you need and are tailored to your personal style: opening choices, direction of play, timing of tenuki, and more.
Analyse the teaching game
You then review the teaching game together and link your decisions to clear ideas. Repeated over time, this structure builds a stable way of thinking that you can apply in any game.
Teaching games and opening focus
Teaching games focus mainly on the opening and early middle game (often the first 50–80 moves), where your choices have the greatest impact on the rest of the game.
Core themes include:
- • Direction of play
- • Selecting joseki that fit both the board and your style
- • Timing of tenuki
- • Recognising big points on the board
- • Finding and fixing your overall weaknesses
Turning study into real results
The goal of reviewing your own games is that you become stronger in the games you actually play: on your usual servers, against your usual opponents.
By reviewing your games every week and basing your study plan on that review, you:
- • Identify the mistakes and habits that cause the most damage to your results
- • Connect those mistakes to specific concepts, lessons, and sequences
- • Turn them into a small number of clear objectives for the following week
- • Learn to exploit common mistakes from opponents at your own rank
Combined with the ability to ask questions whenever they arise, this creates a continuous feedback loop between:
Pricing and membership
Monthly plan – $150 per month
You receive:
- • Weekly 1:1 lesson
- • Weekly live review of your own game
- • Personal study plan, homework, and tsumego guidance
- • Kyu Dan System membership included for as long as you are a private student (standard value: $18 per month)
- • Ongoing support between sessions for questions and positions
This option is suitable if you prefer to proceed month by month.
Three-month plan – $375 total
The three-month option is designed as an intensive training block and offers the best value:
- • Everything in the monthly plan for three consecutive months
- • Save $75 compared to paying monthly
- • Plus: lifetime access to the Kyu Dan System, which you keep even after private lessons end
Over three months, you and Zee have enough time to:
- • Establish and refine your thinking process
- • Build an opening repertoire that fits your style
- • Set up a medium-term study plan you can continue on your own
Because it combines a lower overall cost with permanent access to the full Kyu Dan curriculum, this is the most cost-effective and comprehensive option for serious students.
Full private coaching with four 1:1 Go lessons per month. Each session focuses on your own games, a teaching game, and a clear study plan so you always know what to work on next. *Includes full access to the Kyu Dan System and support between lessons.
The Kyu Dan System
The Kyu Dan System is the study framework behind your coaching. With it, you get:
- • More than 100 lessons on openings, strategic principles, middle-game ideas, invasions, and related topics
- • Structured study paths arranged by theme and level
- • A long-running weekly study group, where members play, review, watch lessons together, and give each other homework on rotating topics
- • An active community of players focused on long-term improvement
In your private lessons, Zee points you to specific modules that address the issues seen in your games. The study group, community activity, and direct access for questions give you several ways to practise and reinforce those ideas.
Availability and enrollment
To maintain a high level of individual attention, Zee works with a maximum of five private students at any time.
You can enroll using the button above:
- • If the button is active and visible, a place is available and you can sign up directly.
- • If the button is inactive or no longer visible, all places are currently filled. In that case, you can email Zee to be added to the waiting list.
For questions or waitlist inquiries:
- • Email: zeejyan@gmail.com
- • Discord: zee7921