Your pawn takes a central square and opens the way for the bishop and queen, the space every attacking plan grows from.

The knight develops toward the middle, attacks his central pawn, and prepares your own center strike; the most natural first piece move in chess.

The bishop takes the classic diagonal against the low wall; the mating machinery starts from this square.

The knight develops and baits the famous pin-greed; if his bishop keeps posing, the sacrifice machinery hums.

Take and you mate them. Decline and you take their bishop.

Material even, queen active, initiative kept.