Connect the Rooks
Part of the Playing Real Games section of Coddy's Chess journey. Lesson 10 of 40.
How do you know the opening is over? Look at your back rank: when the two rooks can see each other - king castled, every minor piece out, queen off the first rank - they are connected, and the middlegame has begun. Until then, keep developing. After that, the rooks go to the open files.
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1Think Before You Move
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