[valarauca1]

Yes and No.

Chess is a lot of memorization once you understand the game. End Game/Open Game have to both be played prefectly at high end, or your opponenet will literally know how to defeat you.

I find Go translates more to programming since it forces you think about more abstract concepts like influence, when to/to not act. There aren't as many hard and fast rules in the meta-game like chess which allow more creativity and self expression.

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The idea a programmer has to play Chess/Go is lot like the idea a programmer has to study advanced math. Really you are just learning logical problem solving, and rational ways of analyzing the state of a system.

[jayturley]

Agreed. I was into Chess in high school and college, but once I discovered Go, I never looked back.

[ccvannorman]

Another Go [1] enthusiast here, I never really got into Chess (here and there it was a bit of fun) but it never captivated me like Go. Chess is like a toy, Go is like an object of beauty.

[1] Go (disambiguation - the game, not the lang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)