Do you know rules of castling:Tim krabbe

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Do you know the rules of castling then learn one new rule of castling by solving this amazing tim krabbe's designed funny puzzle.Aim is to mate in only 3 moves.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcmtC_I7vGI&hl=en&client=mv-google&gl=IN

very strange... Please share video to your friends and smile please.

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FIDE rule 3.8b.......   ‘castling’. This is a move of the king and either rook of the same colour along the player’s first rank

the present rules forbid this. note the words first rank

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hehhe can you do this at chess.com?

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I've seen this before. It's an illegal move now, but with earlier chess-rules this was legal. 

https://books.google.no/books?id=XCkJzeG4D-oC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=Castling+0-0-0-0-0&source=bl&ots=EfgyKn__G6&sig=V96OnCJMsOx-NfmJJkNT9QL83B0&hl=no&sa=X&ei=LdyTVdOMCoalsAHcp4ow&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Castling%200-0-0-0-0&f=false 

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mrulekleiv is correct as per old rules this move was legal.but now it was illegal move

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it was legal move when puzzle designed later the rules have been changed.

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obviously it was illegal move now days.but it was legal move in olden days.

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its a funny puzzle ,old rules has modified now.

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      Tim Krabbe wrote some articles for ChessCafe a while back

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yeah tim krabbe is journalist and chess player.