Go is the most beautiful game. Chess is the dominant game where I live, and it is fun to play quick blitz games and look for tactics, but the feeling is nothin

Go is the most beautiful game. Chess is the dominant game where I live, and it is fun to play quick blitz games and look for tactics, but the feeling is nothing like a game of Go. As far as early decisions, one of the most important in Go is knowing when to rethink your plans. You may place a stone with the intention of defending it, but if the board state changes, it might end up serving better as a local influencer or a sacrificial stone instead. To that extent, your early decisions are key, but also you have to remain flexible and attentive to the evolving game as moves are played, adapting your early decisions to unexpected later complications. Playing a good Go game feels almost zen or enlightening; you pick your moves with careful determination, but your plans flow like water around the fluctuating board state. There's a reason there are so many Go "proverbs", something in the game mechanics makes it a perfect metaphor for life or the universe.