This article is irritatingly full of stretches. Go proverbs? Are there not chess proverbs? Similar can be said about managing companies and reading Sun Tsu's A

This article is irritatingly full of stretches. Go proverbs? Are there not chess proverbs? Similar can be said about managing companies and reading Sun Tsu's Art of War. You can extend the Art of War to interpersonal relationships. You can find meaning in every sentence in Harry Potter, if you felt like it. And Go can make you smarter? Go, like chess, involves short term and long term memory manipulation, risk analysis, pattern recognition, psychology, and executive planning, which further involves deception and short-term and long-term planning. While Go has more possible configurations than Chess, the feeble human mind will not be using some drastically different skillset to deal with it. That is to say, I doubt children who play Chess are worse off than those who play Go. Ergo, it's not Go: it's just the training of relevant skills, which is a byproduct of learning the game. Pardon my bluntness, but this reads like those articles that try to make something more mystical than it really is.