Does playing Go become boring if you stop studying?

[teancoffee]

If anyone is wondering, Chinese chess, and Japanese chess are a lot of fun. You can play both at playok.com

[illluck]

Of course, because we all know Germans are such great examples of defenders of human rights, that the North Koreans can't begin to surpass them on the non-notoriety scale, and while we're at it Germans have always had the best fiscal policy, never once going bankrupt as a society.

Huh?

Surely this is not the first time you've came across a... post from SmoothOper?

[SmoothOper]

[DISCLAIMER, the puprose of this post is not to start a CHESS vs GO war Just a personal feeling...]

As you can see, it doesn't really matter if you include this or not. When given the chance, the chess vs go people will start the discussion anyway, with or without you. ^^ Thank you for trying though.

Trying to get back to the op: I tend to have more fun playing go when I'm also studying it, because I have new things to try out in my games. A nice bonus is that losses don't fluster me nearly as much when I'm studying, then there's something to learn. When I'm just playing go to have a good time, losing tends to feel much more unpleasant.

The problem is that on this board there are any number of people that prefer chess, and jump on opportunity, to state it. Even if they are not ever entitled to feel that way on a Go board. I think it speaks to the increasing dominance of Go in Chess related spheres, that these people can be found trolling L19.

[PeterN]

It wasn't boring before I started studying, I doubt it'll be boring when I stop.

PeterN