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| Posted by rich_sposato wordiness.com 6/29/2008 21:32:50 Play online chess |  Subject: Can you castle onto an occupied square?Message: I looked up the castling rules on Wikipedia and FIDE, and found nothing to prohibit the king from castling onto an occupied square. I assume the king would capture the enemy piece on the target square just as it would capture a piece on any square during normal moves. Wikipedia says: (  en.wikipedia.org)
Castling is permissible only if all of the following conditions hold: 1 The king must never have moved. 2 The chosen rook must never have moved. 3 There must be no pieces between the king and the chosen rook. 4 The king must not currently be in check. 5 The king must not pass through squares that are under attack by enemy pieces. 6 The king must not end up in check (true of any legal move). 7 The king and the chosen rook must be on the same rank. FIDE says: ( www.fide.com)
The right for castling has been lost: 1. if the king has already moved, or 2. with a rook that has already moved Castling is prevented temporarily if: 1. the square on which the king stands, or the square which it must cross, or the square which it is to occupy, is attacked by one or more of the opponent`s pieces. 2. there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected. Has this situation ever occurred in official games? If the king may capture while castling, this would be the only situation in which 3 pieces are touched in a single move. 1. the king 2. the rook 3. an enemy piece | ||||||||||||
| Posted by premium_steve wordiness.com 6/29/2008 21:47:49 Play online chess | Message: since there is a piece between the king and rook (an enemy piece), i don't think castling would be possible. did this come up in one of your games, rich? it would be a fun move to make, all the same. :) | ||||||||||||
| Posted by rich_sposato wordiness.com 6/29/2008 21:57:41 Play online chess | Message: Yeah, I see. When I first read that, I was thinking only of the square which the king would cross as between. Now that I think about this again, I see that of course the king will land on a square between the king's and rook's starting positions, so any enemy piece there will prevent that. No, it did not come up in any game I played. Thanks, Rich ——— Kaidanov's chess homework pays at Eastern Open — Kentucky GM Gregory Kaidanov is perhaps better known today as a chess teacher than a competitor. But he gave his students an object lesson on the value of doing one’s homework while winning the 39th annual Eastern Open, held last week at its traditional home at the Westin Washington hotel downtown. 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Posted by tugger | wordiness.com 10/10/2008 09:45:34 Play online chess NO Message: Posted by ccmcacollister | wordiness.com 10/10/2008 10:07:28 Play online chess ...YES~! Message: Board! Or at least it used-to-be possible. It may have changed, but I was surprised to actually have personally seen it work in the past. Other than that, as they say, #3 Wiki and #2 FIDE pretty much cover the matter. Tho that would be a fun game alteration for skittles play, to be able to o-o or o-o-o and capture anything the King or Rook land on (or sweep across, on b1 or b8 for eg.!?). Also "Uncastles" can add an interesting twist as a Chess variant. A bit harder to pin that king down ... Does the GK bit still work? Well I don't know offhand. |