It depends on the position. There are some lines where the Kingis more comfortable castling long... but most of the time, castling short is safer.
Is Black Better Off Castling Left?
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0-0-0 owns. 0-0 is for noobs and cake eaters.
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BinkReardon wrote:
0-0-0 owns. 0-0 is for noobs and cake eaters.
Can you please explain this "0" phenomenon. I don't understand chess in codes 
blueemu wrote:
It depends on the position. There are some lines where the Kingis more comfortable castling long... but most of the time, castling short is safer.
Sorry, I am a little confused:
Does castling short for both white and black mean that the king is snuggled in the middle of the 3 pawns? Still learning the specifics.
Dec 8, 2013
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When you castle "short" (usually written as O-O), the Rook ends up moving two squares, from h1 to f1 or from h8 to f8.
When you castle "long" (usually written as O-O-O), the Rook moves three squares, from a1 to d1 or from a8 to d8.
blueemu wrote:
When you castle "short" (usually written as O-O), the Rook ends up moving two squares, from h1 to f1 or from h8 to f8.
When you castle "long" (usually written as O-O-O), the Rook moves three squares, from a1 to d1 or from a8 to d8.
Thank you very much, I understand that a lot better now! =] That's a good way to put a long concept into something simply said.
Dec 8, 2013
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Castle opposite the side of your opponent (if they have already castled, and where there is best pawn development for protection. Pawns are an essential part in the role of keeping the king out of the way of check.
Dec 8, 2013
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tigbench wrote:
Castle opposite the side of your opponent...
This is good advice if you have the initiative, and can direct the flow of the game. It's usually bad advice if your opponent is calling the tune.
0-0 is also known as castling "kingside" (for black or white) and 0-0-0 is castling "queenside.
When castling, if you are well developed (Q,Bs,Ns are out or nearly all out) you have a choice of going kingside, queenside or not at all. You want to look at the opponent's set up to see which side of the board he/she has the most pieces on to mount an attack. Try to castle to create the most amount of trouble for the opponent; if all his/her pieces are gathering on the kingside, castle queenside and thwart those plans.
You do have to watch castling q-side that your 'a' pawn doesn't get snapped off (king is too far away to protect that pawn right after castling 0-0-0), but sometimes you can trap a bishop now an again by pushing the b pawn up (yum-yum!).
Also, occasionally there will be an opponent's set up that is very mobile to switch sides but the centre is plugged up. Then it's often best to NOT castle and to step the king up to the second rank, protected behind the centre pawns and get the rooks joined so they can be mobile behind the king, ready to switch sides to whichever is needed most. I used to play a guy a lot that specialized in that kind of mobility; eventually very few of our games resulted in castling, because it committed the K to one side or the other, but that's not the usual case.
Anyways, try not to castle blindly, if you are about to get pummelled on the k-side and can castle q-side, do it!
When playing as black, do you think it's better for black to castle to the left? (By left I mean king on G8 and rook on F8)
It seems like a negative thing to do, to castle to the right with black (king on C8, rook on D8).
By White Castling Right and Black Castling left, the king just seems so much more cozier, so much more secure in the middle of the three pawn setup.
I guess I am sort of a newb for just realizing this now, I always have been castling on the right side, no matter what color I am.