Players attacking early.

There is one thing I have noticed about openings; now I know developing your pieces is important and connecting your rooks..however I am rarely able to connect my rooks before being attacked.

Finding a time to castle your king is tricky too, but I end up finding a time to castle it sooner or later. I have a much harder time being able to connect my rooks. What do you think of people attacking early before finishing piece developing?

In my experience, if someone starts to attack very early without having all is pieces developped, the attack won't work and I will be able to counter-attack.

Well, if we try to develop around the same time, wouldn't their attacking pieces be the same as our developing pieces? So I guess it evens out when they attack.

I just find it slightly annoying, I heard higher level players tend not to attack each other until they are fully developed.

Higher level players don't attack before being fully developped because it's not good and they know it !

I believe in that case the attacked player should look for the opportunity do defend whatever the real threat is at the same time that he develops his remaining pieces. For example say that you have all the pieces on the game except for your rooks and a bishop in between them. Then your opponent comes with checking your king, if you can bring that bishop of yours to block that check it would be a good thing to do, get it? You'd have done three things at once: developed your bishop, defended the king and connected the rooks

"I am rarely able to connect my rooks before being attacked." Do you mean, that your opponent attacks you before you have made two center pawn moves, two knight moves, two bishop moves, one queen move and 0-0 or 0-0-0? aka eight moves? Do you strictly try to avoid to move a developed piece a second time? Do you strictly try to avoid unnecessary pawn moves?

I look at your recent games and i find that you do not obey very good the basic chess principles:

de.lichess.org/KqdNJYHS/black#15 (move a developed piece a second time)
de.lichess.org/ffCfchvz#2 (develop queen before knights and bishops)
de.lichess.org/Zc51IygK/black#5 (dont play ..Ne5! (ok, thats not basic, thats just a motif one has to know))
de.lichess.org/mFdCwzqL#24 (do not develop pieces)
de.lichess.org/YrDSgPdt/black#29 (resign in an even position (you have Nc8))
de.lichess.org/yOJ0OTRJ#14 (drop a pawn)
de.lichess.org/95vMJmIM/black#15 (do not develop pieces (Qb6, Be7))

etc etc.

Good luck with improving ;-)

the last link should have been
de.lichess.org/95vMJmIM/black#17

You should offer a specific example or ideally examples.

Speaking in generalities, a fundamental idea in chess is that an attack can only succeed against competence defense with a preponderance of force. If somebody is attacking without a force advantage than the attack should end up ultimately failing and weakening them. If they are attacking with a preponderance of force then you've certainly misplayed the opening somewhere.

Yes. Development is just a special form of 'improve the position of your worst pieces in order to accumulate attacking force'.

(Quote)lichess.org/YrDSgPdt/black#29 (resign in an even position (you have Nc8))(quote)

I had to resign because I had to do things and wasn't able to finish the game in time. I guess I should watch my developed pieces more.

If I come across a good example I will post it.