![]() Here, I’ll introduce shogi for any who haven’t heard of it before, and while I’ll place football parallels throughout, I’ll of course have a dedicated section for more specific parallels. I’m not trying to dismiss any chess-soccer parallels, but rather share how shogi and soccer are intertwined (and, in my mind, to a higher degree than chess). ![]() The game is not only very similar to chess, but the game play itself might be more aligned with football tactics than chess. The game of chess itself has many parallels to football tactics: opening the match with your own plan, attempting to predict how the opponent will play and effectively setting up a strategy to counter their tactic making tweaks, sometimes minor, sometimes major, to your strategy in response to the opponent’s moves and much more.Īnother strategy game, chess’s Japanese brother Shogi, deserves its place in the football-tactics-as-a-game sun. A low-scoring match with two tactically strong teams is often described as a chess match. The Athletic published an article on Christian Pulisic’s transformation into a chess player, generating parallels between his early-career play style and current, more mature, wise, and calculated style. Recently, Louis Vuitton ran an ad featuring Messi and Ronaldo playing chess-likening their careers to that of a chess match, where each player is trying to cement themselves as the single greatest of all time. We widely use chess as a metaphor for soccer tactics, and the mere idea of a person playing chess invokes a romantic air of strategy and wisdom.
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