Coombs Yeah I got into it at university but it's very hard to find decent go clubs anywhere in Australia.
It's a brilliant spectacle, more engrossing than chess in my opinion because if you're an experienced player you usually have some idea what the strong moves would be but the specific choices the pros make are fascinating with each turn.
I will admit the majority of pro games are a bit serene to be ideal in terms of excitement. I used to follow a fourth dan on Kiseido who went by the handle "TheCaptain" online, but who always sought to develop long, implicitly connected groups with strong sente sequences, forcing decisive life or death battles, because he was so strong at tesuji and much weaker at yose. He notably claimed victory over several higher ranked players because of his unorthodox high risk style.
More or less every pro level game could develop like that without explicit tactical loss, but it's considered a deeply impolite way to play by the meijin.
