Strategy Games
📋 What it is
Strategy games reward thinking ahead — imagining your move, the opponent’s reply, and your next move.
🗣️ Coach says
Good players don’t just make a move — they ask “if I do this, what will they do, and then what will I do?” That’s looking ahead. Even one extra step of foresight beats reacting move-by-move.
🧠 Memory hook
Don’t just move — think “if I do this, then they do that, then I do…”.
😲 Whoa!
Chess grandmasters don’t calculate more moves than everyone else on every turn — they recognise PATTERNS from thousands of past games, so good moves “jump out”.
✅ Quick check: In tic-tac-toe, why take the centre first?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
The centre touches the most winning lines (4 of them), so it gives you the most ways to win and to block.
Thinking ahead about which square enables the most future lines is strategic foresight.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Play one round of tic-tac-toe saying each move: “if I go here, they’ll block there.” Narrate the look-ahead.