Computer Chess and Football Analysis

If innumerable comparisons have been made between chess and politics, chess and war, chess and strategies for mano y mano (or womano) gaming the development of computer analysis of football plays reduced to x and o graphics as simple as those of chess might have developed too. Chess pieces haven't any variation in performance capability from other similar pieces though while football players' abilities vary considerably. Even so the sort of statistical analysis that computer chess engine make of chess games perhaps has been used for pro football teams as well.

The world's highest rated chess player Magnus Carlsen has a F.I.D.E. chess rating of about 2877. One ordinary chess engine that players can play against has a chess rating of 3350 probably. Carlsen and other highly rated players like Aronian, Caruna, Grischuck, Nakamura, Anand, Ivanchuck, Kramnik and Topolov probably play against their own chess engines now and then. I would guess they can program a chess engine to play like a particular top rated opponent in order to hone their own tactics playing against them. Even beginning players have a number of chess computer chess games and , such as Py-chess available free on-line to play against There are pro-analytical engines such as Houdini and Stockfish, some with open source software. Are some football coaches using football computer programs to statistically analyze or even to call game plays? Will jobs for programmers and chess wizards be created in pro football soon. Can the Denver Broncos use a GM chess player-coach?

Scrimmages of X's and O's given abstract analysis might determine what plays work effectively against others, what offenses and defenses are best suited for particular situations and series, and even take into account weight and skill characteristics of individual players in order to find more statistics for strengths and weaknesses in play selection. Computer play engines might have data about opposition force team cadre and determine where the best places to attack are-such as a 40 dive if one has Adrian Peterson in the backfield and the average weight of the defensive front four of the opposition is only 230 pounds.