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I’m still learning and I would like to know which way should I castle? Should I’ve to wait to my opponent castle to decide or it doesn’t matter?
++ Always castle short. It is easier to do. The king is safer on the g-file than on the c-file.
The exceptions are when you want to attack h2-h4-h5 with support of Rh1, or g2-g4-g5 with support of Rg1.
tygxc wrote:
++ Always castle short. It is easier to do. The king is safer on the g-file than on the c-file.
The exceptions are when you want to attack h2-h4-h5 with support of Rh1, or g2-g4-g5 with support of Rg1.
Ok thanks, I’ll practice this way
It depends if you play 1 e4 you can have long castle as an option and if you play d4/english. Short castle is better.
Short castle is generally considered safer, as, mentioned before, the king is safer on the g file than on the c file. However, you can often be punished for castling short in various variations, such as the Sicilian, or the KID if you don’t start a bayonet attack on the queenside posthaste. Long castle also puts a rook on one of the central files, so do with that what you will. Also, when you long castle, you can always play Kb1 or Kb8 to get your king off the c file.
In the end, just evaluate the ending positions and decide where your pieces feel best. Don’t castle into a very obvious attack, or into all your opponents pieces. The very objective of castling is to get your king safe, after all.
Sometimes you will have options, like in the KID, where both short and king castle are playable. Then, it’s really up to you. For example, when my opponent plays extremely solid with a double fianchetto, which isn’t as rare as you might think, I like to castle on the opposite side of my opponent, trade off the bishop in front of their king, then start a flank pawn attack with the rook placed behind the pawn. But castling both ways is fine here, and there are different plans then my own, with different moves needed to achieve those plans.
Apr 25, 2022
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Short castles stand for ca 90% of all castling, it truly depends on the game.
May 20, 2022
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UncleTom92 wrote:
Short castles stand for ca 90% of all castling, it truly depends on the game.
yup
Damm
BarbarianGoth wrote:
Castling just makes King a stationary target. Easier to pin in and coordinate pieces to attack. Plus your not using King at all for offense or those pawns. Avoid castling imo.
-600 rated player
BarbarianGoth that’s why your 600. Pushing many pawns creates square weakness (you don’t know that is) and the king is less tactically safe in the middle.
Dont castle too soon, oponenet will know where to attack, but dont castle too late either or you never will
I used to believe keeping my king in the middle was safer as as beginner. But with more experience it dawned on me why it’s so unsafe. People used to fling their pawns at me and somehow I would lose. If you get more experienced you will see why it is so bad, it may work for you because people at your level are not good at defending attacks. It took me one game when I was rated around 1300 where I delayed castling to realize why it’s so important.
Castle often fast.. Castle often.. your games will last longer that way. Sometimes 0-0-0 is a good idea. But it's not often that you will want to do this unless your tearing apart a Sicilian Defence
You are clearly a beginner, your saying the opposite of what’s true. If you don’t castle everyday you most likely won’t be able to pass 1000.
I castle almost every game and I’m much stronger than you….so that doesn’t make much sense
If grandmasters never castled then their rating would plummet
I’d like to play a game against you please.
I was referring to play strength not physical. Are you 10? I never said I was good or talented, I’m simple mentioning an important and indisputable (or should be) chess fundamental. It’s not overrated, why do you think the top chess engines castle on their games. Do an experiment where you check the game review for your games and see how many times the computer recommends castling, or move that contribute to the ability to castle (ie moving out a bishop or knight to castle).