Wrestling is a game like chess. There are a lot of similarities between these two sports one obvious one that it involves playing against an opponent

Yet chess is directly played using inputs from the brain and only requires minimal hand movement, mouse clicks or even just speaking out coordinates of chess moves

To wrestle one requires to do different moves. Moves include various body movements, wrist grabs, head grips, underhook grips, etc.. And then attacks such as leg attack or attempt at a particular throw. Each attack requires a preparation a certain sequence of grips, false attempts and etc. Finally if all checkboxes are cleared, one can execute an attack.

This is not yet a guarantee of success. Your opponent if he is a skilled wrestler will execute defence. The defence could be at early stage, e.g. He will not let you prepare an attack at the beginning. At later stage of attack it will be harder to execute defence and your chance of success grow. But even at later stages of attack your opponent if he is good, can still defend himself if he knows how. There will be a scramble at the later stages of attack, and you need to win in that scramble. Your chances are high, but you need to be precise. In that moment, there is not really too much time to think for both sides. They need to be prepared with their homework. In this sense wrestling is best compared to blitz chess.

In the table below there is a broad comparison of chess and wrestling:

id	Parameter	Chess	wrestling
1	Time limit	5 mins (blitz)	5 mins
2	score	1 pawn	A grip with advantage or a leg attack for example
3	score	3 pawns	1 point
4	score	5 pawns	3 points
5	win	time runs out	score difference
6	win	mate	pin
7	win	giving up	just big difference in score
8	win	tie	tie was possible in old rules
9	moves	pawn goes forward	grab wrist or start attack
10	moves	eat pawn	grab lag
11	moex	Pawn exchange	Leg attack and defence
12	moves	Pawn becomes queen	Attack leg score point and score more points on the bottom?

1. You can compare wrestling and Tic-tac-toe. For example every small move in wrestling has a counter move
2. You start by grabbing a wrist, your opponent uses a defence, he lets his wrist out.
3. You continue with some other attack and your opponent defends that as well
4. So for every move there is a counter move just like in Tic-tac-toe.
5. It all would end in a tie unless someone makes a mistake

• you can compare wrestling match with a maze too.
• You can imagine a maze with 2 entries and multiple exists. You enter from one side and your opponent enters from another side. Then you search for an exit while your opponent also does the same.
• In this comparison you don’t really interact your opponent. But you search for a solution to a maze while every corner and every path that you explore is mapped to some wrestling situation in the match. You sort of think what would happen if you take this path, e.g. use a particular attack sequence, will it lead you to a score? While your opponent also thinks that if he takes a certain path it would lead him to a score. You the defence moves by your opponent mapped to wall and blind paths ending with nothing, while exists are continued to your successes.