Questions tagged [castling]
Questions relating to castling
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Castling on King side [closed]
This is a quiz from a chess website. The challenge is to castle on King Side. White to play. How can we do this ?
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Which openings have a 0-0-0 long castle as white and as black?
Long castling is not very common. Are there any statistics as to how many games have long castle? And how many of them are won?
Which openings can one typically play where there is a long castle, as ...
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Could castling ever be proven to be legally allowed for sure if the first move is required to be a pawn move?
In retrograde analysis problems, castling is assumed to be allowed unless it could be proven that either the king or the rook has previously moved.
It is well known, of course, that one could never be ...
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Why did I lose -> I thought I can swap king and castle to avoid checkmate? [duplicate]
[FEN "6nN/Bp1k2pp/2n5/p7/Q4R1P/5pP1/P3qN2/4K2R w K - 0 1"]
As you can see my king got checkmated through the enemy's queen and pawn.
My question is, why is this a checkmate? I haven't moved ...
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Can a castling checkmate be engineered from this position?
I get the following position pretty often in online bullet as White. It's mate in a few (for instance, 9. Bf4+ Kc5 10. Qd5+ Kb6 11.Qb5#). Needless to say, the setup is dubious.
This looks like a prime ...
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How is white allowed to castle 0-0-0 in this position?
I always thought the rules are you can’t castle if an enemy piece is watching the space between your king and the rook you want to castle with. But according to chess.com castling long is allowed in ...
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Has checkmate ever been achieved by castling queenside in a high-level game?
This is to complement the kingside variant of that question
Has checkmate ever been achieved by a castling queen side in a high-level game?
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Has checkmate ever been achieved by castling kingside in a high-level game?
Has checkmate ever been achieved by castling kingside in a high-level game?
I asked an AI large language model, but it listed games which certainly didn't achieve checkmate with castling kingside. I ...
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Chess960 castling controversies in the 2019 vs 2022 WFRCC, where both are Nepo vs Wesley So
Why did Ian Nepomniachtchi get a replay for the castling issue in the 2019 WFRCC vs Wesley So, but Wesley So didn't get a replay for the castling issue in the 2022 WFRCC vs Nepo?
I mean I know the ...
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Chess960 castling controversy in the 2019 WFRCC: Where can I see the original Nepo vs Wesley So game?
Apparently in the 5th game Ian Nepomniachtchi originally had to play 13. Rf1 instead of 13. 0-0 but then they allowed Nepo to replay the whole game.
The ff is the replay game:
https://lichess.org/...
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Has O-O ever been played without moving the e or g pawns?
Normally the e or g pawn must be moved (to release the bishop) before castling kingside is possible. However, it’s theoretically possible for a knight to have taken the bishop without these pawns ever ...
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What are chess openings variations, lines which ensure delayed castling with equal probabilities on both sides; king and queen sides?
What are chess openings variations (lines that ensure delayed castling with equal probabilities on both sides; king side and queen side) for both white and black?
Delay to move 15-20.
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With regards to the safety of the king when castling kingside
Basically, I want to keep my king safe after a kingside castle.
I want to avoid this:
8/8/8/8/8/8/5PPP/2r3K1 w - - 0 1
The configuration is such that none of my pieces can access the f1 square. I ...
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Has anyone done a correlation of castling with winning and losing?
I saw this question: How often does castling occur in grandmaster games? The statistics are interesting. The answer states that they do so about 90% of their games.
So, the move seems pretty valuable....
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What is white's increased advantage in chess90 as compared to chess870? (Chess960 can be split into 2 subsets, chess90 and chess870)
Here, it is shown 90 of 960 positions involve having to move a rook on 1 side in order to castle on the other side (unless the rook is somehow captured or something). These 90 positions come from 18 ...
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Was AlphaZero taught castling?
Since castling involves one player moving two pieces in one move, was AlphaZero just given this move, in the same way it was told that players take turns and a win is better than a loss? In other ...
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Unhinderable long/short castling by White/Black
Assume the goal is that a certain side castles as soon as possible, and the other side wants to completely ruin castling rights.
White simply plays 1.e3 2.Nf3 3.B any 4.(5.)capture an interloper 5.(6.)...
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How many Chess960 positions exist in which castling on one side does not require moving the rook on the other side?
Update: It's chess870 (or chess869). See answer.
Context/Motivation/Goal: In regular chess, you never have to move a rook (on 1 side) to castle (on the other side). My aim is to see how much of 9LX ...
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Debugging my PERFT coding
I'm stuck debugging my move generation and do move function. I noticed that the castling as actually the problem in my code, but I think I have implemented everything right. I installed some java ...
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Openings where Black castles queenside and White castles kingside
I really enjoy opposite-side castling positions where I'm able to launch pawn storms and put my opponent under pressure. For this reason, I actually enjoy the Exchange French as Black / I want to take ...
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Chess480: Why 480?
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Lewis has named this chess variation "Chess480"; it follows the rules of Chess960 with the exception of the castling rules. Although a Chess480 game can start with any of 960 ...
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Is castling bad in chess? [duplicate]
One of my chess opponents said that he doesn't think castling is good because the king is in the corner and it is easy to checkmate. However, many articles and books suggest that I castle early when I ...
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How do you write "castles" in algebraic?
Sorry if this question is a duplicate one, but I can't find the algebraic notation for castling. What is it?
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Reasons why castling may be the only winning move
I recall at least one game of mine where my last move was castling (around move 20 or so :-), it saved my ugly posterior, it was the only move and we immediately agreed on a draw after that. (Do not ...
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Can you castle twice in Chess960?
Consider this Chess960 game. (Warning: moving backwards through this replayer will result in an incorrect board state. See Board playback and Chess 960 for details.)
[FEN "rnkqbbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/...
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Why is castling here a mistake?
I am back at chess after two years and am enjoying it a lot. I was playing and this happened after I checked a report at chess.com:
I have googled the importance of when to castle the king. Here I ...
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Is there any obvious disadvantage of not castling in a game?
The opponent has the option of castling but can I still play a solid game without castling either side? I won some games in bullet time controls but only because position was too complex and opponent ...
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Latest time to castle in a tournament game
In a casual game I played, my opponent castled around the 80th move. I want to know what was the latest move in which a player has castled, in an official game. I don’t think that there is an entry ...
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Is it legal to push the rook with the king when castling?
I've gotten into the habit of pushing the rook over to the appropriate square using my king; that is, I take my king into my hand, I take it to the outer edge of the board, then push the rook to its ...
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What is Indian Castling exactly?
Western castling doesn’t exist in historical Indian Chess (Chaturanga). Instead, in some versions, there is a cool move whereby each king can once in the game make a knight's move.
I read that it is ...
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Castling vertically problem
I've once saw a joke chess study about castling vertically. However, I have forgotten who has composed it. I remember that in the positions, all the pawns were locked, but not much else. Does anybody ...
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Should a chess engine be aware of opposite-side castling?
I often hear chess experts and chess articles say that when opposite side castling occurs on the board that it is important to launch an attack on the enemy player as fast as possible. Up to the point ...
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A castling variant-how would it change the game?
In chess, castling can't be done if the king or relevant rook have moved. How would the basic strategy of the game change if the king and rook could castle after moving? Also, how would the game ...
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Compiling Stockfish to disable own castling while allowing opponent castling
For artistic purposes, I would like to create and study engine games in which only one side is able to castle.
For this, I need to compile a version of Stockfish which never castles, and doesn't ...
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Does a loophole still exist in the defintion of castling?
Castling on the e-file with a promoted rook, an idea immortalized by Tim Krabbe and Max Pam, is no longer legal since FIDE amended the wording to state that castling is an actionn on the first/eigth ...
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Trapped Rooks: Does Stockfish penalize more if the king can't castle temporarily?
In this talkchess thread, they discuss trapped rooks and castling rights. In post #5, user @Lyudmil Tsvetkov posted:
I would give at least some 10-15cps for temporary prevention of castling.
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What’s the difference between Partial Retrograde Analysis and Retro Strategy?
What’s the difference between Partial Retrograde Analysis (PRA) and Retro Strategy (RS) which are different ways of interpreting retrograde analysis chess problems?
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What is the fastest possible stalemate by castling?
It is known what the fastest stalemate is. But what but is the fastest possible stalemate in which castling must be the last move?
33 plies is my best result so far.
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1. e4 h5 2. ...
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How should one decide which rook to put on a central file? [duplicate]
How should one decide which rook to put on a central file? I usually just move the one which is closer to the file, unless there are weak squares in my position that one rook is defending. In ...
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What's the plan against Black's kingside fianchetto when playing Queen's pawn game?
I often play 1. d4. In many of the variations that arise, Black decides to castle kingside with the bishop fianchetto.
I do not know what the general plan is in this case. Normally without the ...
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Castling question [duplicate]
It is my understanding that a castling move cannot occur if the king / rook moved. However, in the case where a rook and king move but end up in their original spots, can a castling move occur?
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Castling Rules-Does “The king & rook must be on the same rank.”="Only original rooks can do castling."?
According to Wikipedia, one of the conditions of castling is:
The king and the rook must be on the same rank (Schiller 2003:19).
This is because of a loophole that would occur otherwise:
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What effects would being able to capture while castling have?
Capturing an enemy piece while castling has been illegal for many decades, and the concept has been solidified in chess history.
But what effects would it have if it were allowed? First, some ground ...
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Is castling good in Chess960?
The overall arrangement of the pieces in Chess960 seems so weird that I have a question about it: should there be castling at all?
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About castling “fights”
Today I played as White in an interesting bullet game in which a strange “fight” occurred.
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1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 b6 3. e4 Bb7 4. Bd3 g6 5. Be3 Bg7 6. Nc3 Qe7 7. Qd2 Nc6 8. a3 a5 9. h3 h5 10. Qe2 ...
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Official rules for castling in Chess960? (Is there a loophole?)
Note: this is another rules-lawyering question.
I first ask for an official source I am calling into question the phrasing of the rules. Then I consider a few plausibly official sources, and point ...
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What are pros and cons around banning castling?
Vladimir Kramnik has proposed on chess.com that castling be banned for the good of the game.
What are the kinds of objective points that might be made for & against this idea? Based on these, do ...
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When should you trade to prevent castling?
The main question I have is about a game I played. What do I need to know about how to take a piece so that my opponent's king can no longer castle?
In the following game, I played Bxd2+ to do so. ...
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How can you castle legally in Chess960 when the castling rook is on the king's destination square?
According to the FIDE Laws of Chess:
4.4 If a player having the move:
4.4.1 touches his king and a rook he must castle on that side if it is legal to do so
4.4.2 deliberately touches a rook and ...
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Does permanent loss of castling rights reset three fold repetition?
Threefold repetition requires that the same "potential for moves". For example, if an en passant move could be played in one position but not another, it does not count as the same position.
With ...
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