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Daniel
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There are some situations where rooks become active in the opening, but they are rare, and often only enabled by blunders of the other side.

One example: White has castled with a knight on f3, black has not castled and the black bishop pins that knight. Now sometimes h3h3 can be met with h5!?...h5!?, and if white accepts the sacrifice with hxg4 hxg4hxg4 hxg4, the black rook enjoys suddenly an open file, and white is in serious trouble if the black queen can join the attack.

There are some situations where rooks become active in the opening, but they are rare, and often only enabled by blunders of the other side.

One example: White has castled with a knight on f3, black has not castled and the black bishop pins that knight. Now sometimes h3 can be met with h5!?, and if white accepts the sacrifice with hxg4 hxg4, the black rook enjoys suddenly an open file, and white is in serious trouble if the black queen can join the attack.

There are some situations where rooks become active in the opening, but they are rare, and often only enabled by blunders of the other side.

One example: White has castled with a knight on f3, black has not castled and the black bishop pins that knight. Now sometimes h3 can be met with ...h5!?, and if white accepts the sacrifice with hxg4 hxg4, the black rook enjoys suddenly an open file, and white is in serious trouble if the black queen can join the attack.

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There are some situations where rooks become active in the opening, but they are rare, and often only enabled by blunders of the other side.

One example: White has castled with a knight on f3, black has not castled and the black bishop pins that knight. Now sometimes h3 can be met with h5!?, and if white accepts the sacrifice with hxg4 hxg4, the black rook enjoys suddenly an open file, and white is in serious trouble if the black queen can join the attack.