Right, i think if the king is frozen you can't castle but castling is a king move
Spell chess castling bugs
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castling is a king and rook move so both pieces need to be unfrozen, in theory. How did they implement it in the first version of spell chess, did they do it wrong? Like allowing castling when a rook is frozen? (big no no)
jackityjackjack wrote:
I don't really think it is technically a king+rook move since you click the king and then the space 2 away from him. it just moves the rook as a special move
Well, you are wrong about that. Castling rules are not the purpose of my post, but I'll bite:
1. The rook moves when castling. Literally.
2. You cannot castle if the rook already moved. So castling is a function of both king and rook.
3. As a third but weak argument, consider the notation. It does not specify just the king: 0-0 instead of Kg1/Kg8 and 0-0-0 instead of Kc1/Kc8.
(And about your point on jump-spells: it doesn't work on castling exactly because it is a bug.)
Hi,
I am not sure who to report these bugs to, so I'll just put it here (I also sent a bug report but I am not sure where it goes):
1) Long castling jump: Consider a case where one can castle long, except that a piece occupies b1/b8. Then one should be able to cast the skip spell and castle, but it does not work.
2) Castling while the king/rook is frozen should not be possible by the freeze spell's rule. However, if only the rook is frozen, the king can still castle, and the frozen rook moves as if it wasn't frozen.
Interestingly, I had both situations in games, but you can verify it in the analysis board too.