The 3rd Side Castle
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Introduction
Castling is a special chess rule where two pieces move at the same time. The king moves two squares to the left or right, and the rook “jumps over” the king towards the opposite side of the king. Each player can only castle once per chess game.
We can see the king side castle or also called short castle, and the queen side castle or also called long castle.
These are the rules of the castle in chess:
- The rook and king haven’t moved.
- There is no piece between the rook and king.
- There is no square that the king moved through is being attacked by an opponent’s piece.
- The king isn’t attacked when going to castle.
And you think this is very simple?
Oh no!
The story begins
If this is the whole rule of castle, then if we go the e-pawn promoted into a rook, the king on e1 or e8 don’t move, and we could have a long and long and long and long and long and long and long castle, which is called o-o-o-o.
WHAT???
Yes, don’t look at me! I am not joking!
Puzzle
There is even a puzzle used this rule:
White to play(mate in 2)
Can you solve this with the o-o-o-o?
You can solve it in the comment.
And another crazier one in 1972:
White to play(mate in 3)
Can you solve this difficult and crazy puzzle?
Please don't promote the queen and checkmate! Use the o-o-o-o!
Go to the comment and solve it!
Thank you!
All the puzzles will be answered in the next blog!
Finally
The rule is pretty interesting,
but, after that, FIDE had this rule after 1972:
- King can only move left or right when castling.
So we haven’t this crazy castle now.
So, what’s your opinion of this crazy thing?
Tell me in the comment below!
Bye! Hope you don’t try to castle o-o-o-o in a game because you can't do this in chess.com!
@ArthurLee2021
