What's your chess ELO rating? I gave up on going deeper into chess because the hardcore aspects of memorizing openings and always repeating so many against other skilled players bored me. Grandmasters are just autistic filing cabinets.
Actually I'll still enjoy a casual game of chess, the amount of effort to get really good at it doesn't prevent me from enjoying it in less intense situations. (My max ELO was only around 1600 over a decade ago, I have no clue what it is now but I'm sure it's terrible.) Go too can get hardcore -- so can many games. Super Smash Brothers is fun but can you imagine how boring it must be to perfect your skills to compete at the top level? Of course it's probably not boring for those people, and I actually wouldn't describe most of them as "autistic" in any sense. So with Go I'll be happy if I ever reach 10kyu but I'm not too serious about it. Like in chess, I'm a filthy casual. I don't count precisely, I sometimes make broad territory estimates but frequently find areas too complicated for me, so I just play them out. I've had only one game where the result ended up with me winning by 1.5 point, it was a 9x9 game where I was still mostly teaching someone how to play and giving them many hints and ideas of what I was thinking and how I would respond to myself, so on reflection it was very similar to playing a slightly different version of myself. The man versus self aspect of Go is where a lot of the mysticism comes from, it's irrelevant to whether AI can beat the best humans.
Actually I'll still enjoy a casual game of chess, the amount of effort to get really good at it doesn't prevent me from enjoying it in less intense situations. (My max ELO was only around 1600 over a decade ago, I have no clue what it is now but I'm sure it's terrible.) Go too can get hardcore -- so can many games. Super Smash Brothers is fun but can you imagine how boring it must be to perfect your skills to compete at the top level? Of course it's probably not boring for those people, and I actually wouldn't describe most of them as "autistic" in any sense. So with Go I'll be happy if I ever reach 10kyu but I'm not too serious about it. Like in chess, I'm a filthy casual. I don't count precisely, I sometimes make broad territory estimates but frequently find areas too complicated for me, so I just play them out. I've had only one game where the result ended up with me winning by 1.5 point, it was a 9x9 game where I was still mostly teaching someone how to play and giving them many hints and ideas of what I was thinking and how I would respond to myself, so on reflection it was very similar to playing a slightly different version of myself. The man versus self aspect of Go is where a lot of the mysticism comes from, it's irrelevant to whether AI can beat the best humans.