Castling is the Worst Rule in Chess
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Reducing draws and destroying a lot of the tactical thinking and depth is... Silly, in my opinion. If just for the sake of avoiding draws.
Anyway, as said previously, people will just castle in several moves. Slowing the game down.
And I don't want half of my games to end in 4 or 5 moves.. That just isn't.. Well.. Fun, for me. Weather I win or loose.
Anyway, surely adding more complicated rules, etc, makes draws less likely?
Anyway, as said previously, people will just castle in several moves. Slowing the game down.
And I don't want half of my games to end in 4 or 5 moves.. That just isn't.. Well.. Fun, for me. Weather I win or loose.
Anyway, surely adding more complicated rules, etc, makes draws less likely?
These players wanted change- yes.
Do many grandmasters at all want to get rid of castling? Did owe two want to get rid of castling?
Do many grandmasters at all want to get rid of castling? Did owe two want to get rid of castling?
Anyway, without a solid defence (castling) many players might be scared to make an attack! If they made some other defence, it would take many more moves, and so they would not feel safe to launch attacks.
Anyway, if Fischer or capablanca felt castling was the reason for so many draws, surely they would just have invented a chess viariant... Without castling?
Also, sorry for the three or four comments in a row!
Also, sorry for the three or four comments in a row!
I would say 12 games, 10 draws, Capablanca's fear of "draw death" is happening exactly as he predicted.
I probably should have titled my post with a different question.
I guess I should start another one.
Perhaps, but still I feel stopping castling will change that... At all. It might even make it worse, see the latter parts of #26, and then #27-29
#30: so those who say the end of the world is coming are absolutely right, too.
Sorry, chess.com dosen't work well with live chat.XD
#33....
No, there is little proof of that. Your just being a tad rude now, I feel.
But when 5/6ths of games at a tournament are draws, one can easily use it as evidence that drawing is more common.
Unless that is a one off example, of course. Which I wouldn't say it really is.
No, there is little proof of that. Your just being a tad rude now, I feel.
But when 5/6ths of games at a tournament are draws, one can easily use it as evidence that drawing is more common.
Unless that is a one off example, of course. Which I wouldn't say it really is.
VicountVonJames escribió:
#33....
No, there is little proof of that. Your just being a tad rude now, I feel.
But when 5/6ths of games at a tournament are draws, one can easily use it as evidence that drawing is more common.
Unless that is a one off example, of course. Which I wouldn't say it really is.
No, there is little proof of that. Your just being a tad rude now, I feel.
But when 5/6ths of games at a tournament are draws, one can easily use it as evidence that drawing is more common.
Unless that is a one off example, of course. Which I wouldn't say it really is.
Capa predicted that was about to happen in his time, not in the 21th century. Of course the world will end eventually. Sure you are sensitive if such a silly joke looks rude to you.
I have been flagged as rude by some members on chess.com before, I wouldn't be too sensitive a person myself. Wasn't really thinking when I said that.
I hadn't really read that information well enough- I guess it has been the guts of 100 years since he said that. Still, it may happen in future, not that I have much of a problem with it myself.
I hadn't really read that information well enough- I guess it has been the guts of 100 years since he said that. Still, it may happen in future, not that I have much of a problem with it myself.
No problem. I suppose it may happen too, but still I find amazing how the game is still alive after so many decades of human minds and powerful computers trying to get into its secrets.
That is true. Shows you how complex a game it really is, dosen't it?
I'm not really sure no castling is a good answer at all. Or making stalemates a win, or maybe a 3/4 win. In fact I don't know what the solution is. I was hoping people would have some good ideas.
What I do think is strange is that Capablanca's fear has occurred but most people refuse to think it's a problem. I wish he was alive to help me on these forums.
I remember a quote from a Spanish master on an interview: "in my opinion it's a bit, only a bit, beyond the limits of human mind. If it was easier or more complicated, probably it would have disappeared yet".
That is why I love chess.com forum than fake news. It is actually troll.com.
Sep 3, 2017
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#39
Castling is so Gothic--like it's so William the Conqueror! Well, if we change the castling rule, maybe we should go further and allow the whole fianchetto set up, with K tucked to the corner, rook by his side, and bishop in front to administer last rites just in case 😮
