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Development means moving your pieces to where they can be useful for later attack or defense.
- Develop your minor pieces (knights and bishops) before the major pieces (rooks and queens).
- Make a knight's first move towards the center of the board.
- Make the bishop's first moves attacking squares on your opponent's side of the board or protecting important squares on your side of the board.
- Don't make your bishop's first move block your d or e pawn.
- Don't develop the queen early in the game.
- Don't move the a or h pawns out two squares to get the rooks out early. Rooks are strongest later in the game.
- Don't move one piece continuously.
