A successful fund manager plays shogi

I was a little surprized to read a Bloomberg.com's article including the word "shogi". The title of  the article is "Arcus's Pearson Sells Japan's Winners, Buys Losers in Top Fund" It is about Mark Pearson who is a founding-partner of Arcus Investment Ltd. There is a following sentense in the bottom part of the article;

Pearson draws on his skill at playing shogi, the Japanese version of chess, to come up with investment strategies.

If you have friends who are investors and have not known shogi yet,  please  let  them know the article. Learning and playing shogi could be useful for them to come up with investment strategies.