Develop all of your pieces

Submitted by orejano on Mon, 06/09/2008 at 7:52am.

Much as been said about one of the rules of chess: "Develop all of your pieces as soon as possible" yet there are players who fail to do this and paid a proce too high.

Below there are a couple of miniatures played by me that shows the punishment for not following that essential rule. 

 The first game was played at chessworld.net and I played White.

 The second game was played at chess.com and it shows a nice Queen sacrifice. This game also shows that the most important thing in chess is material activity rather than material value.

 


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Comments:

by SilverPanic - 4 months ago
Littleton, Colorado United States
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In both games, you showed that developing the queen too early will allow one's opponent to take shots at it while developing and gaining control of the center. That's another chess fundamental.
by Off_Constantly - 4 months ago
CA United States
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I loved the discovered attacks and indeed an execllent queen sac. Well played, sir.
by Michael_Sarmiento - 4 months ago
Laguna Philippines
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great sacrifices....

 


by niaz - 4 months ago
pakistan Pakistan
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i agree with u develop ur pices fast

 


by JG27Pyth - 4 months ago
NYC United States
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I love the Queen sac in the second game! And overall a real cutthroat sense of attack. Very nice, enjoyed these games very much.
by PawnFork - 4 months ago
St. Louis United States
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It says one ting when you use the games of masters to illustrate a point, and one much different when your own games scream the lesson.  Way to go!
by orejano - 4 months ago
Concepcion del Uruguay Argentina
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Member Points: 611

@Zenchess

That's true, but it's alsto true that less that 1% of the user on this site are top level players And I think that the qty of club level players here is also very low. Most of the users here are begginer/average players and one of the things they need to learn are the basics of chess. And one of this basics rules is to develop all your pieces.

I agree that this is not a "hard" rule. And it is broken in order to achieve other advantages in the game.

PS: HTRYC its a great book!!  


by Zenchess - 4 months ago
Omaha United States
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  In top level competition mere blind development of pieces is not the primary consideration.  See the book 'secrets of modern chess strategy: advances since nimzowitsch" for discussion and examples of when modern top-level players flout 'rules' of development regularly.  In fact there is a particularly interesting example (that I've posted here on chess.com) in which one side has a huge lead in development and still gets smashed.

    Developing pieces is important, but no modern top level player says that the goal of the opening is to 'develop all your pieces as rapidly as possible'.  Instead you can find in classic positional books like 'reassess your chess' that the goal of the opening is to achieve a favorable imbalance and guide the position towards one that favors your imbalance.  Development can be one of the imbalances, but there are many other types of them and development can be sacrificed for a long-term positional gain. 

 


by Pittacus - 4 months ago
Georgia United States
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In the first game, you developed your pieces so rapidly it almost seemed your opponent was standing still.  This game is a great example of the White's inherent advantage in moving first.
by tyrious - 4 months ago
State College United States
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good exaples of attacking early if your opponent doesnt develop
by orejano - 4 months ago
Concepcion del Uruguay Argentina
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millerthesmurf: Agree with you, maybe I should have said that Nd7 is the most common line.
by millerthesmurf - 4 months ago
cornwall England
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on the first game u mentioned nd7 is the main line but there are A COUPLE of main lines for example you can take with the pawn on E then play g6 witch is my favourite line
by orejano - 4 months ago
Concepcion del Uruguay Argentina
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 611
Both games were turn-based games.
by TomMac19 - 4 months ago
Devon United Kingdom
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 85
good games. i especially like the 2nd. could you say if they were played on LIVE? if not then blacks Qxc2 is an absolute disgrace lol.
 

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