Yes, there has been a recent interest in the game of go, and I've tried to answer this question in the past.
When I look at the literature concerning the philosophy of go, and the philosophy of chess and now from the link I've seen a game called 'Shogi' I realize that there's a great equivalence of fundamental principles.
Most of the people responding in the link provided appear to be low to middle level players of either game who are likely to be bent on the 'fun' part.
Many of the attributes they have supplied for go are in chess. Even the distribution of force and strategy across space - which I consider the best point in the link - is in chess. A game of chess can have multiple strategies.
A major difference between the two games would appear to be that of world view. But that's an issue I realize to be squarely contingent on the comparable histories of the cultures supporting each of the games.
Right now the west and it's savage competitiveness appears less appealing than Eastern philosophies. But that's only because for most of the western civilization there has been a breakdown in tradition.