I played my first full on chess.com yesterday.
I have a game of chess in progress (on chess.com).
I am playing (and losing) a game through PM right now.
And I'm playing this game right here.

Maybe playing chess was what I needed to appreciate go more. I was getting flustered by losing a lot, but maybe I was just being a baby.

Of the family tree, I like chess the best --
not because of the 'arbitrary' rules ( same problems in all the variants ),
but because of the elegance and universality of the iconic design.
Historically, just too bad xiangqi and shogi settled on the characters design.

I guess I'll just try to make him move his bishop away.

Forcing me to capture the knight and lose my bishop. I'm fine with this. For one thing, the side to which W is most likely to castle now has a pawn out of place. It's not a huge weakness, but it's less ideal (or at least, so I understand from my chess studies). But more importantly, he must recapture, since I am threatening his queen (and if he just moves his Queen, obviously I can capture again, squeezing more out of my bishop before losing it). After the recapture, whether with the queen or G pawn (the latter would weaken the kingside castle further), the D pawn is left hanging and I can gain a minor material advantage by capturing it with my bishop. I could also develop my knight to F6, which allows him to defend, but my attack on it will be up a tempo compared to his defense. I'm not sure whether it's better just to take or develop at this point.

I don't want to move the queen out, because it seems risky.

It's been more than 35 years since my last game of chess, but I would have taken the bishop with the queen. Perhaps that has something to do with my quitting chess?

You are correct. There's no risk to having the queen on f3, plus it would then be developed and could put pressure on points like f7 and b7. Instead, taking with the pawn weakens White's kingside hugely.

"Don't move your queen out too early" is standard advice to newcomers, but like all rules it is usually taken too seriously until one learns the real reasons behind it.

By the way, if Black takes the pawn, there might be some tricks with a discovered attack: 1...Bxd4 2.Bb5+ axb5 3.Qxd4 (both h8 and b5 are under attack) 3...e5 (defending h8 with tempo) and White is still a pawn down but may be able to harass Black's queenside pawns in the future.

Oof, I think he should have taken my bishop with the queen, that's a doubled pawn there now. Though I suppose he has an open file for his rook if he doesn't castle? In any case, I decided to take with the bishop. I realized that if I move the knight to F6, he can just push the pawn forward, threatening my knight in the process! For some reason, I often forget to consider pawn moves like that. If this were a live game, I probably would have made the mistake. But as this isn't, I was instead able to lose sleep by thinking about the position last night.