Go is an imperial game where each player seeks to enclose more territory on the board than their opponent.

Like Chess, Go offers a player rating system. But unlike Chess, Go offers a well balanced handicap system which allows a stronger player to play evenly against a weaker player and be fully challenged.

With the proper handicap each player will have an equal prospect of winning. At the opening move in Chess there are 20 possible moves. In Go the first player has possible moves.

This wide latitude of choice continues throughout the game. At each move the opposing player is more likely than not to be surprised at their opponent's move, and hence they must rethink their own plan of attack.

Self discipline is a major factor in success at this game. It has a similar mix of strategy and tactics that you find in Chess and, with just a few simple rules, Go uncovers a whole new world of possibilities and creativity.

Chess players may also find that they can use their Chess experience to improve in Go very quickly.

I still prefer western chess though and not just because I grew up with it I like the way you can tuck your king away when you castle. I have some cousins that basically grew up in China, and they had me play a few games of Xiangqi with them.

It's certainly different than what I'm used to In a general sense, the answer to that is Go. The main reason for that is because the size of the board and the fact that it is empty to begin with gives the game a much more complex opening to the game.

But if you were to make things equal in board size then chess is the obvious more difficult game to master. The game of Go have simple rules and hence you can start playing the game efficiently sooner than if you learned the rules of chess because you would have to think on when to correctly apply these rules.

But, since Go has a huge board then it takes more years to master, it's a simply answer to a question that fans of both games argue about.

Many Go players like this argument simply because they know that Go is a much more difficult game to master and they like to use the argument that there are computer programs that can beat Grandmasters in the game of chess, but this is the wrong way to look at it.

Most Go books consist of how to start playing the game, but that's it. I am a player that is not rated high in chess but I learned how to play Go rather quickly and had a few wins after a dozen games, you just need to realize how the game is played and why the pieces were set where they were set.

Some are for not letting you escape, others are for attacking, and the rest for both. But for the most part, people generally not strong Go players like to play attack then not letting you escape.

Once you know the concept of escaping first dozen games then you learn to attack and you can win games.

As a chess player mostly, giving moderate Go players a strong fight let's me know that Go is a lot of practice, more difficult to master, but it is not that far off from chess.

Note: If you play your first Go games you will find that the score for each opponent changes dramatically from one player having 9 more than you then it shifts for the other player having 3 more in just a few turns.

Actually there is an objective empirical measure for how hard games are. The Elo difference between a beginner and a top player is a very good indication.

I know the rules of go, but don't have anyone to play. I don't want to play online. I like the idea of more strategy and less tactics though Some chess loves adore tactics though, and like a different poster said I wonder how many would enjoy playing go.

As for me I've already cast my game lot with chess. If I wanted to get into a different skill as a hobby I'd want to pick music or math. Well, the fact that it's more difficult for computers to play go at high levels is probably an indicator that go is in some sense harder.

However, I agree with others that go is easier for beginners to learn, especially since there aren't as many specialized rules to memorize. I doubt that there's any absolute answer to this question, though, because the two games require somewhat different kinds of intelligence, which different people are likely to possess to differing degrees.

In other words, some people are probably built to find go easier, whereas others are build more for chess. These are broken apart based on Mastodon's default formatting of around characters so the formatting might look a bit weird.

At the end are some replies that I felt were interesting enough to share. The full thread is where we can pick up the conversation if you would like.

As someone who understands chess and is learning Go I can say they're nothing alike, outside of being long running board games that have white and black pieces.

Chess is limited in its moves. Your opening moves are limited to a time-tested number of "good" openers. Chess is about humiliating the other player with clever moves.

You can play it for speedy checkmate or remove all of your opponent's pieces. Both strategies are about knocking your opponent down.

Go has so many different skirmishes going on that you can lose a section of the board and still win the game.

Nothing is final. You're both creating the landscape in which one player can claim more territory. It also doesn't reward humiliation: play a capture game and lose the overall war.

Chess is a puzzle at this point. Your moves are limited on the board. When people talk about all of the various combinations of moves they're overstating their case.

You have a handful of good moves, a few great moves, and a lot of terrible moves. People talk about the middle game and end-game of chess as though they are something grand and mysterious, but really you're looking to keep enough pieces on the board to keep applying pressure to your opponent.

Could be me simply being prejudiced, but involves so much calculation yet simple in its elegance. Does chess have a Hikaru no go counterpart?

The whole debate is extremely retarded. The case has been made for fans of both games countlessly on why their game is the superior one.

I play go, 5k on kgs ;;. I'm going to say that I like Chess more. On April 04 kefkalives wrote: The whole debate is extremely retarded.

I think your analysis of endgame for go isn't really right I enjoy both of them but am a skilled player of neither. I feel like go offers a lot more freedom and creativity which is daunting for beginners harder game to play decently at a low level?

Advanced study of chess seems more dry to me. Yeh i couldnt really find the right words to describe how i feel when i play Go end game.

I guess there's just so many damn pieces on the board it feels a bit tiring and complicated trying to find ways to squeeze out some more territory need for win.

Tis how i personally feel about it anyways. I would say Chess is more fun but Go is more challenging, maybe? On April 04 Picture wrote: Does chess have a Hikaru no go counterpart?

Please stop citing chess computers as evidence for go being a harder game. The reason computers have a difficult time playing go is because it's a combinatorics nightmare of a game.

Humans do not think like computer algorithms and hence this analogy is just inapplicable. Replying to the OP, I'd say go is harder, but its clearly subjective.

I don't understand Go I have tried to play vs a computer program and i had no idea what i was doing. Even when i was winning i still felt clueless. Well i'm probably almost as bad at chess but at least i somewhat understand what is going on.

When i tried go everything seemed so random I think i should watch good people play. Yeah seriously, the people using chess-AI arguments are just showing they dont understand how these artificial 'intelligences' work.

Cut it out. I personally enjoy chess the most chess to be precise. Chess is my game because I love searching for tactics.

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