Is devloping rooks early better than devolping bishops or knghts?
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fog-inactive
Aug 2, 2008
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Don't develop the rooks early. The rook is best used when the board clears up a little. Knights and Bishops have a much easier time moving around pieces then the rook. Furthermore, Knights and Bishops and be traded off between themselves without much of a worry over who got the better deal. With a rook it's not so easy.
fog wrote:
Um it looks like you developed your knights and bishops first, or do your rooks have the ability to hop like a knight?
develop a open rook file. thats key. try not to move it to much. its a gaurdian
Rooks developing early is going to be bad. N & B are worth the same, so as long as you don't walk them into pawns, trades that occur won't put you at a material disadvantage. With rooks, if you get them into play early, your opponent has no need to win them outright, he just has to force trades. I think darkpawn just said basically the same thing. Its not sufficient to defend them, you must keep them safe.
Also you lose time when they are attacked, and unlike the queen, they struggle to maneouvre on a cluttered board. Besides which, they do a rocking job defending the kings rank, and thats where they should stay unless they are capturing something etc. Sat on an open or half-open file threatening the enemy king or cutting of squares for him - great. Behind passed pawns - great. Centre board - sitting duck.
Most importantly, rooks win endings. If the queens are off and you have 1 more rook than the other guy, you'll usually win trivially, even if your opponent has a little more material than you in total.
I have no idea what the position you have given is supposed to prove, we have no idea what order the moves came in and the king is sat ridiculously between the rooks, violating the golden rule of trying to keep them united!
And yes, I'm hardly the first person to notice that knights and bishops had to be moved first to develop them! The main point the position given proves is that the queen is useful when your opponent hasn't paid attention to the placement of pieces on his back rank!
Developing your rooks and queen too early always leads to problems. Pawns, knights, and bishops enjoy nothing better than chasing a prematurely developed rook or queen into a corner where it can be captured for a material advantage. You should hold your big guns back until you establish effective places for them to go with the pawns, knights, and bishops where they will not be so easily removed by a lesser piece.
Aside from the obvious response, K and B before R, I particularly enjoyed the presented position.
As indicated by "grey_pieces", the position does seem strange. I am interested in the move-list, particularly since I recently encountered a puzzle in the tactics trainer with a similar position, i.e. king between rooks and behind bishop.
The ID # for the position was 0031786...
im a novice, but from what im reading in books etc, its apperntly better to keep rooks till the end game stages. not that its helping me win though HAH..
