Why can't you castle?
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mrguy888 wrote:
Castling used to be different way back when. It is probably a remnant from those days.
It's something about giving the king the ability to move like a knight one time in the game to get to safety but they added that you could not use it while in check to prevent people from using it for unintended checkmate escaping purposes IIRC. Later they condensed the common Ke2 Rf1 Kg1 into one move to speed things along but the check rule stayed.
It's similar to how they added en passant when they gave the pawns the ability to jump forward two squares on it's first move to prevent people from using it to get passed pawns in an unintended way.
passed, or past? or maybe it's 'past passed pawns?'
That's true ... someone said that if you wanted to castle on Live Chess play ... you would touch the King first.
Nice observation.
Werlknack wrote:
This situation never happened to me, but when I drive 150mpH through the town...why is it illegal to drive 150mph?
or
I just killed my kangeroo last night, why is it illegal to kill kangeroos? Ok, ok, maybe in some weird part of Australia (this boring country on the other side of the globe) it is not illegal to kill them, eat them or even make love to them...but how can I castle my kangeroo out of chess.com?
Nice try.
@blakefox "What a twat! You are the epitomy of American ignorance."
Easy, whoa, easy! I was teasing your countryman BorgQueen, whose homepage happens to read: ...I have a keen sense of humour too, so don't take everything I say as literal.
My sentiments exactly.
As for "epitomy of ... ignorance" -- hmmm, how can I tell you this suttly...
BorgQueen wrote:
kotuku wrote:
An interesting point is that the USCF rulebook is not available for download; it must be purchased whereas you can read FIDE rules at http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=124&view=article.
OMG that is just completely American! lol
;)
How do you castle on the chess.com game? Every time I try to do it, it counts the first move and doesn't let me finish.
