Life In 19x19

In comparison to L19x19, the English language chess community is huge and has comparatively many online forums. Is there an analogue forum to this one, i.e. a go to spot for information on studying chess and following the super GM circuit?

I guess chess.com discussion board is good.

http://www.chessforums.org/ is the closest thing I've found. It's not too big and impersonal like chess.com

One day I should try do do better at Chess too...
I wounder if getting better at chess will also improve my level at go as a side effect...

Considering how utterly weak I am at chess, I would say that the two have similar skills, with some minimal overlap, but a strong go player isn't necessarily a strong chess player.

There's a lot of game-specific knowledge of patterns, which is simply required to play well. You can't skip past that part, no matter how much you might want to.

Codexus wrote:http://www.chessforums.org/ is the closest thing I've found. It's not too big and impersonal like chess.com

I've tried to register there but it says registration has been disabled. Have they said anything about it on the forum?

kaimat wrote:

Codexus wrote:http://www.chessforums.org/ is the closest thing I've found. It's not too big and impersonal like chess.com

I've tried to register there but it says registration has been disabled. Have they said anything about it on the forum?

Same message for me

kaimat wrote:I've tried to register there but it says registration has been disabled. Have they said anything about it on the forum?

Apparently, they switched to a rather extreme approach against spam bots and now require every new user to send an email:

http://www.chessforums.org/forum-news-a ... orums.html

Chessforums.org seems pretty good, but I found what I was looking for with chesspub.com. It's a bit more on the advanced analysis/book review side of things.

oca wrote:One day I should try do do better at Chess too...
I wounder if getting better at chess will also improve my level at go as a side effect...

I played Chess first before Go and I can tell you that my Chess game has greatly improved as a result of taking up Go. It's not so much that the same skills carry over but rather that you learn to think of things in different ways. Now when I play Chess, I'm always thinking about influence (which is usually coming from pawns), I continually think in terms of sente and gote which helps me handle the initiative better, I try to avoid over-play (which I never even thought about that way before), and I've actually become much more aggressive and I take more risks (due to the highly tactical nature of Go). I can't say what it would be like for someone coming the opposite direction but there's got to be something to be learned from Chess. If nothing else, I love having two abstract strategy games that I take seriously to give me a break from one game when I need it.

Note: Chess requires far more concentration than Go and is much less forgiving of mistakes.

oca wrote:One day I should try do do better at Chess too...
I wounder if getting better at chess will also improve my level at go as a side effect...

I seriously studied chess a couple of month when I was a strong SDK player in Go. My biggest advantage was knowing how to visualize ("read") moves. Then in descending order: Being used to "see" patterns (good for tactics and mates) and to a mild degree accepting the fact, that sometimes sacrificing is a good strategic choice.

Other than that, I think you can certainly learn some broader thinking (planing) and mental fortitude from any of the two games, which can also affect the other game.

Yep, chess.com is one the best forums you need to check out.