The Chinese Strategy of War

The two board games that best approximate the strategies of war are chess and the asian game of go. Go is played on a large grid with 361 intersections, nearly six times as many positions as in chess. The aim is not to kill off the opponent's pieces directly, but to induce a kind of paralysis and collapse. Chinese military strategists have been influenced by go for centuries. Its proverbs have been applied to war time and again.