Early Game Rook (or the lack there of)

Early Game Rook (or the lack there of)

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     My experience with chess has always been pawns and knights for early game, with a bishop here and there. Rooks were always late game, only being used for checkmates and forks. Around midnight, while trying to sleep I got to thinking about it. A early game rook could be a game changer, although messing up with it would be a painful loss. And so, I will now show you my slow decent into insanity.

    The idea of bringing out the rook early game would be idiotic, unless you implemented a castle. I decided, since it could also lead to an easy victory, to start with a variation of the fools mate.

       This, although not the best position, could be tinkered with, and can be continued with something like this.

     This move, along with making sure not to cover the hole for the rook, could bring him out early game, and potentially add pressure on black's pieces. I continued the game, seeing what could happen, by tweaking some moves, and playing like a person would.

     This rook move forces to push the queen off to the side, and helps put pressure down the middle. Along with this, the bishop on the left holds a strong position, making black lay off the assault on it. There is potential for this opening to work, and so I tested it, against a bot of course, a weak one.

     Now, I'm bad at chess, and if you add a new strategy, a lack of sleep, and half my effort, your going to get a really bad player. Luckily, I picked a bot, inept enough to win against. The rook is useful, not only to cover a piece, and slow don't black, but to put absurd amounts of pressure, during mid-game. In late game it would save you a turn, when getting a rook out to play.

    I plan to post a part 2, so stay tuned, if you want to. I'll be playing some games, seeing how it handles, when against real players, or non-inept bots. Either way, thank you for reading, and feel free to test the strategy. Comments are wide open for critiquing.