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Which style do you most identify with?

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Tactical, Dynamic, Positional, Aggressive, Defensive, Rear, Deep, Superficial, Creative, Pragmatic, active, passive... What will be your style? Would it be a mixture of several of these qualities?
In April 2023, it will be 5 years since I started studying chess. But I've known the game since I was 6 or 7 years old. As a result of my studies, I completely changed the view I had of the game as a child.

I believe that like many, I learned by watching other people play, in my case, I saw my father and uncle play, I learned the movements by watching them play.

I fell in love with the game when I was 6 years old, I spent hours playing alone, at that time, 1992 to 1993, computers weren't very easy and I didn't know where to find a club.

So, I taught everyone to play with me. Years passed and I lost interest in the game, I couldn't understand how to evolve and everything seemed memorized. Without knowing that my knowledge was little. I thought the game was summed up in an opening I had seen in a magazine. And I was the one teaching all of my opponents, so I generally had a lot of advantage and soon lost favor and became disinterested.

In fact, I had no idea how big the world of chess was. I started to understand the game better when I downloaded the "Real Chess" app and started playing on my cell phone. I thought it was cool to play online there with lots of real people, one day a player started talking to me and recommended Chess.com and Lichess.org. From then on I started to learn about different tactical tools, strategies, openings, one thing that always made me curious was the personalities or profiles of the players.

I realized it was something little debated, I didn't find many things published on the subject, so I decided to create the first lines to start developing these profiles and perhaps help players evolve with it.

Below is a list with some characteristics, which I believe can form the profile of chess players (based on opponents and players I have seen playing on YouTube), I believe that changes will appear in the future. Both from you and I will find out. And I will be modifying. But for now, here are the following:

1-Tactical - who likes to throw blows
2-Dynamic - who likes positions with diverse opportunities
3-Positional - who likes the pieces aligned
4-Structural Positional - Who likes the pawn structure intact
5-Harmonic Positional - Who always thinks about putting the pieces in harmony (one defending the other and following the Principles
6-Aggressive - who prefers to always play attacking
7-Defensive - who can do well after finding great defensive resources
8- Retranqueiro - who waits for the opponent's error to play
9- Deep - which tends to calculate a lot in some positions
10-Superficial - who doesn't calculate much and plays more by intuition
11- Intuitive - makes moves based on intuition, which seem good, without any calculations.
12- Creative - makes different moves, sometimes looking for effective and beautiful moves
13 - Pragmatic - objective, which does just the right thing to win, generally simplifies and goes straight to the endings with any pawn advantage.
14- Active - player who seeks to place the pieces in the most mobile ways possible, likes the initiative
15 - passive - does not have the initiative and most of the time needs to be defending himself

What will be your style? Would it be a mixture of several of these qualities?

Let's continue...