Hello, well this would be called "Strategy".
Strategy, is to have a plan in a Chess game for mating the king, and this plan differes depends on the opening you're playing.
Say I play 1. e4 e5 opening, which is the normal beginners opening (I like playing it as white) the plan there goes to developing your pieces aiming to the king's wing to attack the king when it castle later on (mostly, the 1.e4 e5 opening has the king castle to king-side)
But to achive the plan, you have to use "Tactics".
Tactics, are your strikes to achive your "Strategy" plan. so in order to be good at planing, you have to learn tactics, starting by reading books and continuing through solving tactical problems, then "Strategy" comes in later on.
I recommend you read a book called "Chess Tactics" by Paul Littlewood, It's an amazing book to start off with tactics. then you can start solving problems through tactics training here on Chess.com or through the free site http://chess.emrald.net
I hope all this was helpful! I'm a regular Chess player only not a professional, so yea, have fun!
Hashim
I need help to identify my play style. How does one go about that!!