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Castling Points?
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I think that castling is worth around 1 point : if you have the choice between capturing a free pawn with your knight or castling, sometimes it's better to castle to ensure a safe position. However, if there's a pawn or a piece near the king, it's (almost) always better to take it and lose castling rights,since while this piece is here, it will be dangerous (or even illegal) to castle.
Yeah I might believe castling is more 2 points instead of 1 but its about the same and I agree.
A general rule I learned many years ago was that a pawn gambit in the opening was worthwhile if you gained three moves. On the basis that castling "manually" would take three moves, one point seems fair.
MartinMacT wrote:
A general rule I learned many years ago was that a pawn gambit in the opening was worthwhile if you gained three moves. On the basis that castling "manually" would take three moves, one point seems fair.
This is good thinking.
I would cheerfully sack a pawn to deny castling for my opponent, but not much more, and certainly not a full piece.
Castling O-O gains 2 tempi: it is like 3 moves Kf0, Rf1, Kg1 for the price of 1.
We know from gambits that 1 pawn is worth 3 tempi.
Thus castling is worth 2/3 pawn.
2 to 3 points might be a reasonable estimate. This is somewhat equivalent to the value of a minor piece (knight or bishop), reflecting the importance of king safety and rook activation.
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Here is a counterexample:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032520
Tal gave up a knight 11 Nxe6 for 2 pawns and to prevent Botvinnik from castling.
Botvinnik won.
Thus 3 - 2 = 1 pawn is too much.
I stay with 2/3 pawn.
#12 technically the king doesn't have any points because of the importance, some people might say infinite some might say none. So I have no clue where you got 3.5 from
No if anything it definitely isn't, the bishop and knight are 3 points and can move a lot more than the king. Besides Chess has decided the kings points are either none or infinite
Now what are points for other things. For example: Development, Pawn center control, etc… if they were all pieces what would they be worth so I know how important each one is?
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Or maybe if its a chance to capture a queen (Again, bad example) would you capture the queen and lose castling? Let me know, I was just wondering about this and if I should lose castling to capture a knight or bishop or anything.
Sorry if this isn’t a good place to put this question, I couldn’t find anywhere else to ask.
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