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Well, in viewing chess as a wargame, you may run into difficulties, unless
you are Bobby Fischer. For one thing, I make way too many pawn moves in the
opening, and this is the result of a wargame mentality. Further, when I
design, I tend to incorporate elements of wargaming, short range pieces
being the most obvious and ubiquitous. Chess and wargames can be viewed
under the same high-level concepts of tactics and strategy, but any
concepts except the highest, most abstract [and least practical] must be
different. Pawns may be analogous to trees, but only when Birnam Wood to
Dunsinane did go have we seen a forest march across the field. The
practical differences are like those between a mathematician and an
engineer. And the practical difference between your thought and mine is
that now you don't find out what I figure my failures were. That saves me
from embarrassment and you from boredom. ;-)