I often feel like &quot;learning Go&quot; is deceptively a few steps deep. When one learns Chess you effectively can get to the tactical aspect as soon as you know how the pieces move. When you &quot;learn Go&quot; at the first level you understand the rules and their basic consequences, but you still don&#x27;t quite know &quot;how the pieces move&quot;. This is natural since no rule dictates these things in Go—they&#x27;re something you learn as handed down from thousands of years of people playing it.<p>But once you get the &quot;how the pieces move&quot; of Go—essentially, the Haeng-ma and maybe the basic opening algorithm, you can quickly dig in to the really rich tactical and strategic levels just as you can with Chess.