is chess better than go ?

Is there any place where one can play go online?

There was 20 years ago, so I can only assume there is today too.

Just google it.

yeah I found one, but it takes a while o find a game. I was asking to find out if there is some better site then the one that pops up first

My guess is because it's (relatively speaking) not a very popular game in the west.

I was talking to a Korean guy about board games, and he'd never heard of go, but he was telling me about this great game called Paduk.

Turns out Paduk is what they call it.

If you searched for "go" sites but used Chinese or Japanese that might help too. IIRC the 3 big countries for go are China, Japan, and Korea.

shogi is way bigger than go in china. In japan however its traditional, more go players than chess players

Is Shogi big in China? I dunno. I had some family living there who said they'd see people playing Xiangqi on the street pretty regularly.

I love both chess and Go, but given the choice to play only one, it would probably be Go, for two reasons:

Firstly, I'm much stronger at Go than at chess, so I guess that naturally creates a bias towards Go.

Secondly, I love the handicap system in Go. In chess, if I'm 1500 rated, I'll probably lose every single game to a 2000 rated player, which is not much fun at all. On the other hand with Go, I can play black with a few handicap stones and I have a good chance of winning against even the strongest players. At the same time, playing white in Go against a player with a few stones creates a challenge. Even if I'm a much stronger player, I still have to work hard for the win!

What always amazes me though is that one can be very strong in one, but not in the other. One would assume that strength in one means strength in the other. However, I've been playing chess my whole life (nearly 50 years), and I never advanced past casual club player level. I've only played Go for about 15 years, but I'm rather strong at it.

I've often wondered about the difference in the thought processes in the two. Both require reading. Both require pattern recognition. Both require memory of sequences. Yet, you can be really strong at one but not at the other. It's strange, actually.

I like them both but I like Chess better because the endgame of Chess is often quite sharp and definite, whereas the endgame of Go is often dull and involves counting many nodes.