What are you? Tactician or Strategian?

• The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. - Gerald Abrahams

So which one are you? I'd say that I'm the tactician, despite my blunders. There's two ways to beat me:

1. Hope for your life that I make a blunder (which happens often)

2. Make the game a closed game - I'm horrible at closed games, as evident from my preference for openings such as Amazon Attack, Italian Game, Bowlder Attack, Scandinavian Defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, etc.

I think I'm a bit of both, but leaning more on the tactician side.

Anyway, now I know how to beat you! Challenge me!

Under time pressure, I struggle more if the game is slow because I think about strategic ideas and drop a piece.

I would say neither really.

Tactics suppliment strategy:

An example is sacrificing a pawn for open lines for rooks and bishops, or restricting opponent's mobility (a knight can't occupy the same square as a pawn afterall), or sacrificing a rook on c3 to gain central influence. 

tactician

im just a jive sucker.

for now I'm tactician

Both,but shifting towards tactician a bit more.

Tactician

Im a play the position on the board type of player.

"Strong players generally try to find the best plan and the best moves. They don't worry about whether they are tacticians or strategists."

Very true, and well stated!  But!...the low rated players love to label themselves.  Every beginner is "tactical" and with experience, and progress comes the hope that they learn to play the position on the board and not the label.

I'm the oh-god-what-have-I-done type. 

strategian

A tactician that's aware of basic strategy.

I'm a Tactician and a Strategician.

With advanced experience, the demarcation between 'tactics' and 'strategy' gets blurred, as strategy is in truth plays out as simply a sequence of tactics or plays considering various factors to gain an advantage, coalesced into one continuous match.

I'll give you a Russian-school answer: "depends on the requirements of the position!"

Case in point - just so long as you ignore my 32nd move!!

lol...so true!.  I guess lableing is important to some.  I like to keep things simple, and just play the position on the board.

Sometimes it's losing QUEENS and hoping for the best!!

well being a patzer, my opinion is probably invalid but based on how I play, I actually am more comfortable in closed positions, though I'm trying to open up my play a little more. I don't drop pieces too easily (not lately though, lol).

my buddy is the complete opposite. he plays wild positions, drops pieces but has a crazy attacking style to be able to come back. me on the other hand, if i'm down a bishop or a few pawns, it's hard for me to comeback.