Opportunity and Opportunists.

When you have a good plan, you look for or try to create opportunities to forward that plan. That is chess yes?

Or does it look like this?

You have no plan, no ideas and no direction. So you try to fish in troubled waters or you create trouble and hope for an opportunity to make some gain. So you grab at any "opportunity" since you don't know what you want apart from short term gain. In chess the terminology is poisoned pawn.

The people with those traits are usually the ones that try to steal other peoples ideas or work. And they use deflection and misdirection to keep the truth from you. Ergo opportunists.

Which way will take us forward? Which is real chess?

Can you tell the difference between leaders/mental warriors who look for opportunities and opportunists?