Seminar #4- All About Castling! King-side and Queen-side

Today we will discuss about the most basic but one of the most important ideas of chess: king safety! Without it, you are pretty much toast , but if your king is safe, you can have a regular game and have a chance at winning. As we all know, or should know, that castling is one of the main ways to protect your king, and it also develops a rook . There are 2 type of castling, king-side and queen-side castling. Each has their benefits and disadvantages, and I will go over them.

What are the benefits of castling?

• It protects your king with having connected pawns and isolates your king in the corner for further protection.
• It also develops one of your rooks into the game, which is helpful since rooks are usually the last thing developed.

What are the benefits of king-side castling than queen-side castling?

• It usually is more quicker since you only have to move 2 pieces out of the way.
• Your king has protection of all the king-sides pawns

What are the benefits of queen-side castling?

• Your rook is closer to the center now than doing king-side castling
• Your opponent can get out of their comfort zone

Now to sum it up here is a game in which black wouldn't castle:

Thanks! Great lesson!

Well it's pretty straight forward :D

Sorry, this is seminar #3!

oops :(

You can change it. Will you?

I will, but how do I do that?

you can only change the name if you delete it and create it.

No, you just edit the first post, and the title can be edited too.

nope