[btilly]

Go is worse in this respect than chess.

In chess, in principle, you can sit down and think through every possible combination in a simple position and figure out tactical traps. After doing this a few times you learn what sort of things to look for.

In go, even for simple problems, there are too many possibilities to think through all possibilities. Until you can start to recognize key points, nobody can even explain to you how to think about problems.