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How to improve strategic play?

Hello everyone!
I have now reached the point in chess skill where tactical and endgame study alone is not enough to improve very much. I need to start seriously learning some strategic ideas. I am wondering if there is any method, (a book, a type of analysis, particular youtuber, etc), that you all would recommend. I am especially looking for advice from players rated 2400+, but I understand that there are not very many of those, so if you are lower rated, even if you are lower rated than me, feel free to speak up.
Thank you.
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Jeremy Silman's "How to Reassess Your Chess" is normally the book I recommend for this type of question.
- Simple Chess, Stean
- My System, Nimzowitsch
- Think Like a Grandmaster, Kotov (the second part of the book!)
- Pawn Structure Chess, Soltis (the ideas are on wikipedia and are expanded there)
- The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, Silman
- Point Count Chess, Horowitz, and Mott-Smith (descriptive notation)
- How to Reassess Your Chess, Silman

In no particular order, and certainly there are many more sources.
Those books won’t bring you far. Chess is a practical thingy. Play games with you favorite openings and study them. Look up, analyze, ask the engine.

In a certain sense those books are overrated.
Based on what I've seen on your profile, I'd recommend to stop playing so many bullet and blitz games, as that could give you bad habits when you actually try more "serious" games. And instead try to play and analyze slower games, as well as reviewing sample games of your favorite openings/defenses (there's a lot of free content on the internet, so you just need to do a good research)
Modern Chess Strategy (3 vols--Pachman)
Pawn Structure Chess (Soltis)

these 2 meant the most to me (although admittedly I could only get ahold of the single-volume copy of Pachman back then)

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