Possible Clues:

• Excel as strategist away on common
• Surpass old Lee and U Grant, somehow?
• Being exhausted and vague is overcome by superior tactics
• Excel as strategist, striking across the board
• Using strategy, get the better of our new legate — fancy!
• Surpass in strategy away on common
• Excel strategically, twice reversing in particular?
• 'However confident he may be that he has --led a woman, a man likes to have reassurance . . .' (Bachelors Anonymous, P. G. Wodehouse)