It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most
popular game in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it
comes second by far to a local chess variation.
Possibly Chess is more ingrained in Western culture than Go is in
Asia, I don't know really. But Chess has the population-numbers of
West vs. East against it. If there are more chess-players than Go-
players in the world then it won't be by much. But the Go market is
probably a lot bigger. Look only at the money in professional Go
tournaments. It's probably an order of magnitude more than the money
in professional Chess. But I must admit this is just a guess of mine.
Mark
On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:22 AM, steve uurtamo wrote:
i think you might be estimating this incorrectly.
s.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto <g...@sjeng.org>
wrote:
Ingo Althöfer wrote:
What prevents you from freezing in your chess
activities for the next few months and hobbying
full (free) time on computer go.
The amount of chess players compared to the amount of go players.
--
GCP
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