Biggest community is in Asia. When you visit tournaments common language for what's happening on the board is really nice to have. If you stick around that's li

Biggest community is in Asia. When you visit tournaments common language for what's happening on the board is really nice to have. If you stick around that's like <0.01% of what you need to learn anyway. Plus you've learned where Atari name came from :) Japanese counting is more popular but you really don't need to worry about it until some high dan level if you play on 19x19. It takes a long, long time before you will be able to say confidently who is winning on 19x19 if the game is close. I suck at Chess, but to me Go was much easier to learn. You can have quite a lot of fun without studying any openings.