In the five days between Christmas and New Year’s when no one actually knows what day it is and time doesn’t seem to really exist, I found myself curled up on the couch flipping between EPL games and The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. Gradually, the two began to blur together and my mind began seeing the concepts of soccer and chess connecting and flipping around. Every time I jumped from game to episode, another wrinkle seemed to reveal itself.
Hear me out.
Soccer is a game of strategy. While you might not take turns as you do in chess, each player is trying to make moves that threaten the other team just enough to score a goal.