Positional chess.

Thank you for the responses. Any thing else to add or clarify is welcome.

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If yoi want to play positional I recomend d4 an c4 openings along with the KID as white and caro or french as black .

There is practically no difference between different types of playing or at least they are blurred completely.

Good positional play is founded on small tactics. (Jussupow/Dvoretzky)

For example, recycling a piece to a better square by means of a small „trick“ (yet sound and safe), what‘s that?

Positional play, long-term strategy, tactics to gain positional bonus in order to follow a certain strategy?

Actually it really doesn’t matter: all that matters is good moves (RIP RJF)

@ChessMathNerd

"@Emdryo What does 'improving your pieces mean?'"

Generally speaking, a piece's value is tied to its mobility. A queen is worth more than a rook or bishop because it can move to more squares. A Bishop that only has one or two legal moves isn't worth much more than a pawn. Whereas a bishop on an open long diagonal is worth much more than 3 pawns. A large amount of positional play is based on mobility of pieces (space,, center, B vs knight etc. )

There are also static (ie pawn structure) and dynamic (ie initiative) advantages and the accumulation of those advantages are what defines positional play.