Go VS Chess

Chess would checkmate Go, before Go even got a chance to castle.

Chess would checkmate Go, before Go even got a chance to castle.

Chess would checkmate Go, before Go even got a chance to castle.

Correct.

Especially because the Go stones stand still.

I predict the mate will happen early and in the corner.

it's 13 kyu. How about you? I know, this ranking sucks..... But I can't teach you chess.

Chess has better graphics

i concede you that point in a half, to play with good Go stones in a kaya board or similar is an incredible experience. In Go you have also a bigger battlefield to be free, even 13x13 Go is too "small", you cant handle lot of local battles over the board at the same time (beside the effect those fights will generate along the board)

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.  The simple reason why there are many chess programs that are powerful is because chess has been publicized much more than Go, plus it is vastly more popular.  It could be that Go masters much rather keep playing and learning the game than to write a good book about 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.

There are a few concepts that many Go players don't realize.  The main one is that the chess game, for such a much smaller board size, is far more complicated than Go simply because in Go you set a stone and that's pretty much it.  As for Chess, half of the pieces can move in multiple directions and in different manners.  Also, most Go players don't realize that there is really two games in Go, the beginning and the middle game, where chess also has the endgame. If Go was an 8x8 board as well then there would be no contest on which one is more difficult to master.  Another concept is how you can get promotions up to 8 times for any of the stronger-than-pawn pieces.  And of course the rules that can be very powerful if applied correctly such as castling and the en passant, which are both optional.

Now, because the general public would much rather study or master a game that is much more fun, chess is a lot more popular.  Reasons for this are the comebacks for a tie when you have been losing the entire game to a much stronger player, the checkmate that the opponent never predicted/saw, the sacrafice, and of course the fork (amongst others).

I would like a post titled "Go vs Chess, which is more fun?" and notice how many Go players can put up a fight with the title.

Sure, Vulpes_Vulpes, I'll teach you some... but go on to OGS( online-go.com), find this username:围棋哆啦Ａ梦, make yourself a username, preferrably Vulpes_Vulpes, since I'll know who you are. Then challenge me to a correspondence game, unrated. I'll play you, giving you tips along side. if you can't, sorry.... This is the best way I found to give Go lessons