The trick, again, is that Go cannot map directly onto the strategy of some other field. You need to look at the "rules" of Go from a standpoint of abstraction. From this standpoint, you can generally say the underlying grit of Go's rules is, in essence, the same underlying grit of baseball, cooking, Chado, archery, war, or your favorite martial art.

With this assumption in hand, you can do a lot. First, you'll find, in the Way of Go, that these underlying truths underlying these rules have a structure. This structure is dualistic in appearance. For every rule there's an antithesis! Just as one can use the rule "absence makes the heart grow fonder," one can also use the rule "out of sight, out of mind."

The key to the application is knowing something of the environment and cirumstances coupled with your own expertise/experience.