I would also say they are better analogies of "real life" due to chance. I like both games particularly because of their logic depth and chance/statistics side. Even playing poker online without the human interaction is a skill. Often people get a misconception that those games are less intellectual or that they are easy. I really love both, Backgammon and Poker. And poker even more realistic because the pieces are not on the table, people hide their hands, just like in real life. Backgammon is more realistic because chance govern our moves in real life. I'll just be playing casual games for fun. I don't think I'll be spending any significant time studying Go though,as I'm investing much of my time already improving my chess.Can't get good at 2 games in one lifetime. In my case, I bought an introductory Go book and I teaching videos on youtube. So that's another example of the ability not being dependent on the cultural mindset. I don't know about European countries, but in US we have the American GO Association and American born Go champions. But they have Chinese Chess XiangQi, which I learned, and which is also a very excellent form of chess. That's not to suggest that in China in particular Chess isn't popular. It is because parents take their kids to Go school since early age, just like parents do with kids for chess in the rest of the world. It is a big part of culture and a business there as well. In modern times there are schools dedicated to teaching kids to play Go to possibly get them to play well enough to become competitive players and possibly champions. In Asia, and particularly three countries mentioned above, Go is very accessible since early childhood due to the fact that everyone knows how to play it and it is a game that is old enough that each country can claim some history with Go. For historical reasons Go(Japanese name)Baduk(Korean name)WeiQi(Chinese name) has not been introduced to most of the western world like Chess was due to colonization and emphasis on trade by Europeans in general. There is no particular cultural mindset required for either Chess or Go. I thought that at first, but I have to tell you that it is absolutely not true. I even have a board because I thought that I'd play with my dad, but since we've no idea how to judge positions and calculate the end score, we're just placing stones like idiots and somehow agree about who wins. I guess westerners just have a completely different mindset and it takes a lot more time and effort for them to actually listen and focus on it. I really like the idea and I tried to learn it, but apart from learning the basic rules, I just have no idea how to actually play. Basically there is still room for improvisation and experimentation in play. But what's good about Go is that the computer isn't as advanced at playing it well as the chess software. I will probably still spend more time with International Chess, just because I understand it more. For example I downloaded a Go app for my ipad, and since I got the paid app, I get access to these 80k matches. But what I do like is that there are about 80 thousand of recorded Go matches that are generally available to the public depending where you look. For me it is difficult to learn to understand it on intuitive level like Chess, which I was taught in early childhood. There are always low rank players to play against, and there are rooms where you can practice against computer. I signed up for the free to play KGS server. In my case I am just lucky that in my city there is a Go club in Japan Town. Yes, lack of clubs where people play Go in person is unfortunate. I would like to know more about how he managed that.įew Americans have any idea how big a game Go is, if they've heard of it at all. So I left it alone.Ī few years ago I read about an American, Michael Redmond, who reached the 9-dan level of Go - roughly equivalent to grandmaster. But I quickly saw that it required a time investment as large as chess plus I would have had to seek out an Asian community in which to improve.
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