Reply to Question about beat grids.

Hi there all tech tollians!

This is my first post here on DJTT after reading this community almost everyday for a year now. My plan was to let my set up be my fist post, but after moving abroad and leaving my set up at home, it will have to wait.

Before I explain my question, I want to say that I am fairly new to DJing and what I am about to ask is probably very noobish, but how cares. Better to have asked.

My question, as you can probably guess for the title, is concerning beat grids. I believe I understand what they are, but my question is what they "effect"? Do I need to beat grid my tracks to do simple things like beatmaching?

As I said, this might be a very stupid question. The reason I ask is, while I might not be able to practice for half a year, I might as well spend some time beat gridding my tracks if it is needed. Off course while missing my decks back home