Interesting point about chess and weiqi

I am reading Henry Kissinger's book, On China, and came across this interesting point about the difference between chess and weiqi 圍棋 (also known as go 碁 in Japan and the rest of the world).

Chinese chess (象棋) is a game with in which the objective is the capture of the enemy's general. This is similar to chess, in ends with the capture of the enemy's king. In weiqi, however, the objective is not about capturing the enemy's pieces. Instead, it is about gaining as much territory as possible. While capturing enemy pieces may happen during the game, it is part of the process of gaining territory. Unlike chess, which has a specific end state (the capture of the enemy's king/general), there is not specific end state to weiqi; it ends when both players agree that there is no further benefit to be gained from playing on.

Chess pieces have their own strengths and weaknesses, and thus a key to winning in chess is to be able to exploit those strengths and weaknesses of the different pieces. In weiqi, however, each piece is the same. The key to winning then becomes how one is able to exploit the situation. It is about choosing where to develop one's base, where to pick one's fights.

So chess is about how to win single objectives, while weiqi is about recognising how to achieve long-term goals. Both, I would say, as good mental exercises for the military man, for the politician, even for the businessman.