What's the point of "connecting the Rooks"?
Some time ago I found an interesting chess discussion on the web. Neither I remember the name of the website where I found it, nor the name of the GM who wrote the following phrase in the above-mentioned discussion: "Every coach teaches beginners to connect the Rooks, however, nobody knows what benefits apart from connecting the Rooks itself we get". Most likely, that GM was just joking (as his comments on the topic were not serious at all ). On the other hand, do we really understand why Rooks should be connected? Or maybe, we just follow the pointless rules blindly? I hope, one of my old games (analyzed below) will help you to understand the aspects of this problem better.
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The bottom line: one of the main reasons why we should "connect the Rooks" is getting a better coordination among own pieces. Exactly lack of well-coordinated pieces (as the outcome of "disconnected " Rooks, in particular ) caused the disaster in the above-mentioned game for my opponent.
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