[muzani]

With chess, strategy is usually based on intuition, tactics is on analysis. The early game is mostly strategy, end game is mostly tactics.

It's hard to analyze early on. You have things where you sacrifice a pawn for a better position, or sacrifice a bishop for a bishop for seemingly no gain. It's difficult to even define a good position; your queen is in the center, able to threaten everywhere, but it faces threats from everywhere too.

This is where intuition kicks in. I know that I've had a lot of bad games letting enemy pawns in the center or with higher value pieces moved too aggressively early game. There's no analysis that can tell me why, but you develop it looking through your old games.