Storytelling

 A  plan starts with an irreversible move by the enemy. That is a piece trade or a pawn move.

Ssegwanyi, A. - Karjakin, S

What came before.

• 1.e4 c6
• 2.d4 d5
• 3.exd5 cxd5
• 4.c4 Nf6
• 5.Nc3 e6
• 6.Nf3 Bb4
• 7.c5?! 

A premature pawn advance which is the start of an idea.

• 7... O-O first bringing the king into safety
• 8.Bd3

After 8.Bd3. Black to move

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• 8...b6!  The first micro plan (sentence) is to saddle white with more pawn islands than black. The exchange is more or less forced.
• 9.cxb6 axb6 
• 10.O-O 

After 10.O-O. Black to move

• 10... Bxc3! Black tears the b and a pawn apart. Now white has two weak pawns on an open file. This is the next micro plan.
• 11.bxc3 Ba6! Forcing the exchange of the bishops. Not only gets black rid of his bad bishop, but of the defender of c4 too. This is the third micro plan.
• 12.Bg5 Nbd7
• 13.Bxa6 Rxa6
• 14.Qb3

After 14.Qb3. Black to move

• 14...Qa8 The fourth micro plan is to pressurize the weak pawns on c and a, to bind the defenders to the weak pawns and to trade the minor pieces.
• 15.Rfc1 Rc8 The other Rook is targeted towards the c3-Pawn.
• 16.Qb2 h6
• 17.Be3 Ra4! Black activates his rook further and looks for ways to triple along the c- or the a-files. 
• 18.h3 Qa6
• 19.Rc2 Ne4 Pumping up the pressure.
• 20.Nd2 Ndf6
• 21.Nxe4 Nxe4 According to plan, trading the minor pieces.
• 22.Bf4 Rac4
• 23.Rac1 

After 23. Rac1. Black to move

• 23. ... b5 clearing the way for the Queen to join the c-file
• 24.f3 Nc5! Tactics support the plan to trade the minor pieces and to ruïn the black pawn structure even more.
• 25.dxc5 Rxf4 and the white pawns are ready to pluck.

You see how a whole story can be told with the aid of a few micro plans and some tactics. Everything based on a bad pawn move. The micro plans were heavily based on the pawns too.