Difference between tactics and strategy

I am having some difficulty to distinguish between tactics and strategy on a game. I have read some books with each one using one of those words on the title, and it seems a bit the same to me, more a choice of semantics or whatever you call it. If anyone can show me a game (it can be your own) and explain that difference would be great. I thank you in advance for any kind of help.

I would say, in my own words, which might not be 100% correct...

strategy is long term and about ideas rather than specific moves and can be thought about before a game starts. Things like if the centre is closed play on the wing. or whatever.

tactics are calculated moves after a game has started, a specific series of moves to gain an advantage.

Tactics usually create immediately threats either checkmate or winning a piece or gaining some other immediate advantage. Some of the most typical tactics are: fork, pin, skewer, deflection, discovered check, overloading, deflection etc. You can also combine tactics to create combos.

Strategy is more like long term plans. For example if you don't see any tactics you can decide to move all heavy pieces to the queen's side and start to play there. Or for example it you have a better pawn structure you can try to exchange all your pieces coz then you will have an advantage in the endgame. That's called strategy.

All strategies have to be tactically justified along the way. For example, that minority attack (strategy) will fall flat on its face if you miss a tactic (discovered attack... for example) and hang your Queen. Having tactical undertones laced into your building moves as you work towards realizing your strategic ideas will also help avoid letting your opponent have a free hand all the time to pursue their own strategy. Good players are very tactically aware at all times.

Strategy is on the level of ideas, and tactics are on the level of actions. For example, if I have two rooks and you have rook and bishop, I need to figure out a way to win. The strategy would be that if we trade rooks, my other rook becomes more powerful because you have nothing to counter it. How do I achieve that trade? I can make a battery with my rooks and then offer a trade on your first rank, or I could threaten pawns with my rooks until you have to offer the trade to defend, or I can give a series of checks that will force you to block with your rook; those are tactics.

Both things are just abstractions to make learning and thinking easier; they don't really exist. It's kinda like how vectors don't actually exist, but we still use them as a tool to understand forces and model situations.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there's something to do.
Strategy is knowing what to do when there's nothing to do.

tactics= weakening the opposing position in a few moves. strategy= building a plan, planning tactics and studying the probabilities of possible opponent moves

'Chess is 99% Tactics' - Richard Teichmann -
You may enjoy this article by Edward Winter about Chess strategy and tactics. - :]

• https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/strategytactics.html -

Bing Search.
What Is the Difference Between Chess Strategy and Chess Tactics?

Chess strategy is about ideas you’ll develop over the course of the game, such as protecting your king or developing a particular pawn structure.
Chess tactics, by contrast, are short sequences of moves that should result in some tangible gain, like capturing an opponent’s piece or moving your own into a more favorable position.

Perhaps this game gives some indication of what strategy and tactics are like:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032729

To a comp, there is no difference. ;) We have to make the distinction because we're not quite so adept.