First of all you are NOT a positional player. You do NOT play like Tal. You do NOT play like Alekhine. You are a
Do good chess players make good commanders?
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First of all you are NOT a positional player. You do NOT play like Tal. You do NOT play like Alekhine. You are a
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I was saying that if you command troops the same way you play chess then your troops are in trouble.
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Whether in chess or something else, to strategize requires some level of abstraction where you deal with the essential ideas and elements and discard anything superfluous. The fact that you're comparing chess to war is a bad sign because you're doing the opposite 
You're making an unnecessary and fanciful comparison.
For example a pawn moving forward isn't a soldier advancing, it has the following elements:
Attacks new squares
Undefends new squares
Blocks new lines (files, ranks, diagonals)
Unblocks new lines (files, ranks, diagonals)
That's essentially what a pawn move is.
Tal wasn't an attacking player because he always attacked. He was an attacking player because when the position allowed a choice to be made, he often chose (at least when he was young) a dynamic combinational path. All good players first are interested in meeting the needs of the position. If the position demanded a sacrificial attack, players like Karpov and Petrosian would play it. If the position demanded a quiet technical endgame to win, players like Kasparov and Tal would win that way.
so...
I prefer to think of chess as a puzzle & a battle of wits.
if by "commander" you mean a military officer; my expectation is that you want somebody who is a leader of people and can be firm yet inspirational.
this is greatly irrelevant to chess-- perhaps such a person might play chess skillfully, we've seen it in the past. but the skills are not the same...
When I play strategy games, I try to get away with the least casualties. No casualties if I can. However, sometimes sacrificing people may give you better rewards or may be better in the long run.
I think that I'm more of a positional player, but I enjoy the game more when I play like Tal or Alekhine. I can think clearer and I make some awesome moves when I play with the sacrifical playstyle. Although, I'm an emotional person. I don't want anyone to get hurt. If I'd be a commander, I wouldn't send people to their deaths. Does that make me a bad commander?