Castle or develop?

As I play games, and when the casting option has open, but I have not fully developed. You can even see my current daily games. I some I castle recently in some and developed pieces but didn't castle in some games. I'm being confused at this. What should I do? Castle first, or Develop first?

If your opponent can soon launch an attack by the time you finish developing castle first

It depends on the situation

If your opponent has an incoming attack castle

if your king is currently safe develop first

Ok thanks

Castling is a powerful move: it gains 2 tempi: 3 moves in 1: Kf2, Rf1, Kg1, connects the rooks, brings the king to safety. Always castle unless there is compelling reason to play another move first.

I castle early about 95% of the time. Perhaps even more.

I recommend thinking of it as a "required move". At least until you reach the expert or master level. At that point, you'll be strong enough to know when you can deviate.

Until then, though, I recommend castling early, wholeheartedly.

Castle

So guys I was going to develop but you all almost said that castling is best so I castled as you can see my games

Castle. King safety is important and leaving your king in the middle for too long can lead to trouble. That being said, everything has its exceptions. If you can develop a piece while attacking their queen, for example, that almost always is better than doing anything else. 

Castling is a developing move. It doesn't just get your king out of the center. It also activates your rook. In other words, this question is really "which developing move is best". The answer to that, depends entirely on the situation.

If castling gets your king away from open lines or annoying pins, then you probably want to castle as soon as you can. If your king is basically fine in the middle, then castling is less of a priority.

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It depends on the position.  

Develop 

Castling IS developing, ur developing ur rook. 

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As I read somewhere: "Castle because you will or because you must, but never just because you can".

Castling is not used just to get your King to safety. It also can be utilized to ~
2. Connect your Rooks (and finish development)
3. Set a Rook immediately on an open or strong file

Thus, Castling is best when you have developed all of your pieces on the castle side (if you don’t, Castling will make a checkmate easier for your opponent because they can focus on overwhelming one side of the board before you have time to defend).

Long story short, I recommend Castling when you have:
•already developed pieces and wish to connect Rooks (or Rooks and Queen)
•have a solid defense on the side you wish to Castle
•have a strong or open file set up for the Rook involved in Castling
These are my personal “strategic rules” of Castling

it really depends on the game, for the most part its best to develop but it morew depends on the activity of your oponents peices.

I have a same problem as you

I defer castling until after I'm sure that I will castle and I'm sure which side I will castle on.  That might be move 4 or it might be move 19 or it might be never.

If you need to stake a claim in the center or execute a pin or make a defensive pawn move then castling might best be deferred.  If the center is locked up and there are wing attacks to be made then castling may be counterproductive.  For that matter, if the center is safe and your opponent doesn't see it then "failing" to castle may incite an ill prepared attack that gets your opponent overextended and ripe to be taken advantage of (then the game comes down to whether you or your opponent properly analyzed how safe your king would be uncastled).