The rules take five minutes; the game takes the rest of your life.

Early on you'll lose constantly, often without understanding why, watching territory you thought was yours quietly dissolve.

It rewires how you see the board slowly, through hundreds of games and a lot of humbling defeats. But the depth is the draw: every game reveals a layer you didn't know was there, and the first time you feel the shape of a position rather than calculating it, you understand why people give it decades.