How many of you play(ed) Go/WeiQi/Baduk?

There are some other clubs here. There is 

https://www.chess.com/club/checkers-draughts-chess

One of the sites I play checkers in has GO and GO clubs.  And Asian chess.  

I would find it interesting to know whether Chess and GO develop different parts of the brain or if both games develop more or less the same areas, in my case for example I've reached 3k in kiseido go server, but barely reached 1300 here, what does that mean from neurological point of view, does it mean my brain finds certain types of thinking ( those related to GO) easier than others ( those related to chess ) ?or are the levels I've reached to low to have had any impact in the brain ?

From various literature I have read throughout the years I never seen anybody claim that proficiency in one board game or mental activity can simultaneously improve skill or knowledge in unrelated activities. The way I see things like Chess and Go, and perhaps even Chess and other variants of Chess, is that they are not similar. Despite being games that are played on the board the rules are entirely different so it would not make sense that the same neural passages would be used for different things. 

Alternatively I read something else on some site that discussed the claims whether playing chess actually has any benefit to a person's overall intelligence. Apparently there is absolutely no such evidence, particularly not for children and kids. BUT, there was a claim that it helps , or "should help" people in older age to preserve their mental sharpness. The argument was that since the people in old age begin losing neural connections due to age, playing things such as, but not exclusively, chess, helps refresh those connections and that they could be reused or recycled by other brain processes. It did not go into deep detail about this, so I cannot tell if it was proven or not.

Personally I tend to believe that Chess or any similar mental game activity does not help people of young or middle age become more intelligent, more smart, or in any way sharper. There are just too many examples of people who are good at chess but who are otherwise dim witted. 

What I do think, without anything to back it up with, is that chess should help people develop better mental self discipline and reduce impulsivity in general. If you imagine any person you know who is good at chess, you usually can observe that despite having many other mental problems, they are not very impulsive, and they can usually focus well.

By the way, I was looking up information to find out what mental and physical activity is most mentally consuming for the brain, and I found out that it was reading and comprehending complex non-fiction texts such as legal documents, law related stuff.  

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https://www.chess.com/club/checkers-draughts-chess