I'm new here and I would like to know how you castle. Help me please.

When there are spaces between a rook and the king you can castle,

This is kingside castling, You have to move your king two spaces and the rook will move over automatically. It's the same for queenside.

KIESH2     (edit:sorry about the kingside castling diagram,when theres a space all you do is move the king over two spaces!)

Kiesh, there is a major bug in your second diagram! (At least for me!) It begins by showing a full set of pieces, then white castles and his knight and bishop disappear!

Yes I realised Nytik, sorry, just trying to help!

KIESH2

Lol.

Because I don't feel like typing here are the rules on castleing

From USCF Website:

Castling is a special move using one rook and the king. 
Castling is the only time in chess in which you can move two pieces at once. There are two varieties, queenside and kingside.

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In this diagram, both White and Black can castle to reach the position below. 


White castled kingside and Black castled queenside. Remember that the King always moves two squares when castling. Many players forget this and move the king an extra square (to b8) when castling queenside. 

TIP: Top players castle nearly every game. It makes the king safer, and also gets the powerful rook out of the corner.

Is Castling allowed? 

You can only castle, if all of the following are true 
#1- Your king has not moved yet
#2- The rook you want to castle with has not moved yet
#3- There are no pieces between the rook and the king 
#4- You are not being checked. (You can't castle out of check!) 
#5- The process of castling will not put or land the king in check. 

Rule 5 is the trickiest: Even masters have asked questions about whether or not a king is moving through check while castling. 


Even if White has met the conditions of the first four rules, he cannot castle in the positive above, because on his way to g1, the bishop on b5 would check the king.
Black on the other hand, is free to castle. The bishop on g3 hits b8, but the Black king does not have to go through this square to castle.

thanks for your help

Hi everybody,

I´ve got a problem with castling in my currant game. There is empty space between my king and king size rook, I have not moved those two pieces yet and when I follow what has been written above - I move two fields by my king towards the rook - the king jumps back automaticaly! Do you know what should I do?

well it starts with the king.