Positional chess is the most satisfying style

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Rhetro1

Rather than attributing the entire outcome of a game to a move or two, it's instead attributed to many moves which are not individually game-breaking. With positional play, it really feels like you "out-chessed" the opponent. Positional chess requires the least amount of calculation out of all styles. When many people assume that you are either attacking or defending, little do they know that you're not focusing on either one.

Examples of positional moves:

-Luring an opponent's pawn out in front of his piece in order to block it in as they're focused on kicking your piece

-Exchanges that lead to the opponent doubling their pawns

-think about making moves that restrict the opponent's ability to to activate their pieces

-force the opponent to create backward pawns so as to tie down their pieces to them

-avoid exchanging pieces in open positions/try to exchange pieces in closed positions

-lure pawns out from a castled king

-establishing pawns on squares which prevent outposts for the opponent's knights

-establish pawns outposts for knights

-penetrating the 7th rank with a rook

-controlling squares to prevent the opponent from penetrating the 7th rank

-try to control as many squares as possible

-move the farthest pawn from a castled king one square to give the king a way to escape in the future

-when not knowing what to do, look for improving position of pieces

Fr3nchToastCrunch

I think a lot of people are way better at positional play than they realize, simply because they don't realize what qualifies as positional play.