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I’m a Go guy. Love the immense strategy, love the vibe. Chess is fun, but less room for creativity imho.
Chess. Fight me.
Personally, I prefer Chess, but it’s for stupid reasons.
I like that there’s a variety of pieces, it’s easier to determine the winner, and it requires less fiddling around to play out a capturing move.
Chess, because there’s a horse :)
(/s; I’m sure they’re both fine, but I’ve never tried Go and don’t know how it works.)
But how does the horsey move?
It’s a secret!
Go because it doesn’t spread the liberal propaganda that horses exist
You and @radix@lemm.ee should fight
I prefer Chess, but they’re both fantastic. The last couple of years, it really feels like Chess has shot back into the mainstream - and it’s exciting!
Queens Gambit on Netflix definitely helped, plus anarchy chess and all that stuff.
It certainly did. It certainly got me playing again!
I’m a teacher and I see so many kids play chess.com on their phones. It’s the only thing they do on their phones that I don’t hate.
That actually fills me with joy to read.
Go is an ancient Chinese game of encirclement. The Chinese are very wise and sneaky people who introduced this game to the West for a specific reason. When we are busy trying to figure out how to play it, we will find they have not only brought most of the real estate within the US but the encirclement from outside is complete too 😆
TLDR - Chess, much better and safer game.
I feel like this joke would be funnier if it wasn’t depressingly true. I will never understand why governments allow foreign agents to buy property.
Mind, that’s by far not all of the housing problems, but it’s one of them.
Chess, because I’m biased and learned how to play that one first.
Go is probably better if you consider that chess has largely become a memorization game, while Go maintains a strong calculation focus even during the computer age.
chess has largely become a memorization game
Chess is like wrestling.
Someone that is very good is going to be very careful and expect their opponent to be laying a trap.
So a novice that does something “stupid” might actually pull off a quick win. But get absolutely demolished in a rematch.
If they know their opponent is a novice, they’ll do some boring memorization move and easily win.
Pretty sure that Magnus Carlson guy just invented a new opening, because he’s so much better he just fucked in beginnings for the novelty of it and found a new strategy.
Yeah I’m guilty of walking people into the Lasker trap when it comes up. Great time
And yeah Magnus is wild with his games. Computer chess just wants to shuffle the pieces until a winning end game appears in a similar way it feels like
It’s going to be impossible to define “better” here because that’s a subjective opinion. But I will make a couple statements.
In most of the world, Chess is much more popular. However in China, Go is much more popular. In 1997 an AI manages to beat the Chess world champion for the first time. It wasn’t until 2016 that AI managed to beat the Go champion.
That implies that Go has more permutations and is a more “complex” type of game that is harder for computers to brute force. Does that make it better? Up to you.
I prefer Chess but likely just because I grew up playing it. If I were Chinese I would likely prefer Go. I’ve tried playing Go before but couldn’t get into it because I didn’t understand it fully.
Define “better”.
As the man who’s opinion is the standard reference guide, it’s whatever I specifically like better.
Do as the little girl in the taco commercial once said: why not have both?
Go! Easier to learn, cheaper to play, and way more strategic.
Chess, because we have !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz.
Of the two, probably Go because it’s easier to set up and modify. You can have Go games of several different sizes, and it can be drawn on paper if you need it to be. Though I also like the different variants of Chess that are not classic Chess. Not that it has never been hybridized; look up a game called Cho (have been asked to link in this manner, Google having more commonality I guess, questions didn’t seem welcome).
Chessbox is the best modification ever.
What’s Chessbox?
Whichever one you like better
