Comment Re:Some slashdot lore. (Score 4, Insightful) 442
I disagree completely. Completely.
I'm playing Go for long long time, and currently I'm about 1 dan. However, even when I was a novice of 20 kyu, and all these years in between, the game was always equally interesting to me. In fact, this is one of the main advantage of Go over chess. Until you're relatively good at chess, your game is very limited and there's no place for real creativity. In Go, you have planty of reasonable choices on every move, on every level.
Speaking of levels, Go has the great system of handicaps, which makes it interesting to play for players of really different strength.
Go is as complex as you want it to be. You can start playing meaningfully in 20 minutes, and you can master it all your life. It might sound like a cliche, but this is true.
I'm playing Go for long long time, and currently I'm about 1 dan. However, even when I was a novice of 20 kyu, and all these years in between, the game was always equally interesting to me. In fact, this is one of the main advantage of Go over chess. Until you're relatively good at chess, your game is very limited and there's no place for real creativity. In Go, you have planty of reasonable choices on every move, on every level.
Speaking of levels, Go has the great system of handicaps, which makes it interesting to play for players of really different strength.
Go is as complex as you want it to be. You can start playing meaningfully in 20 minutes, and you can master it all your life. It might sound like a cliche, but this is true.
