Control center squares, develop your pieces (knights and bishops), castle and connect rooks.
Is it good to Castle?
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Absolutely. You should pretty much always castle. It is part of opening principle.
Control center squares, develop your pieces (knights and bishops), castle and connect rooks.
Control center squares, develop your pieces (knights and bishops), castle and connect rooks.
King safety is number one priority.
Jul 9, 2018
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#4
It depends on the position. Sometimes your king is safer in the center than the flanks, especially the center is locked. However, it is always good to try to castle.
Avoid a hassle, always castle.
Jul 9, 2018
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#7
It completely depends on the position. Generally, you do want to castle, but there are definite exceptions. For example, castling kingside as black in the French is instant suicide, as is queenside in the wing gambit for white.
Jul 9, 2018
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#11
"If the king does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow?" - Lelouch vi Britannia
If you want to become a great player, king in the center every time!
Noubisch wrote:
Absolutely. You should pretty much always castle. It is part of opening principle.
Control center squares, develop your pieces (knights and bishops), castle and connect rooks.
Control center squares, develop your pieces (knights and bishops), castle and connect rooks.
Exactly what I would say!
Jul 10, 2018
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#13
Castle when you have no better move. I've castled later than move 25 before.
blueemu wrote:
Castle when you have no better move. I've castled later than move 25 before.
I agree. Sometimes I don't know what to do next so I castle to not accidentally create unnecessary weakness.
It's totally cool not to....as you conduct a doozy and don't feel like it 'cuz it's taking time away from your ferocious attack.
When in doubt, Castle
In the long term it might not be good to. Activating your king in the endgame will be harder.
Because the white king isn't active enough
Jul 11, 2018
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#19
Magpie10 wrote:
Do you think it is good to castle
There are pros and cons of castling. Let's first check the pros :
Cons:
Jul 11, 2018
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#20
#20 In my second position we can see that whit would be winning
If black plays an obviously ridiculous move like rd7, white can play a8=Q +, Rd8 and Qxd8.
Also Rc8+ , Rd8 Rxd8# This is why castling could be dangerous. It doesn't give white's king any escape squares. In my second position in post 20, it could prevent mate if black played h6 , f6 ,or g6.
Do you think it is good to castle