Tuesday 15 September 2009

The ‘castling’ move


The ‘castling’ move - The King can make a special chess move called 'castling' and it is recommended that you do this during the opening phase of the game. This is a defensive move which increase the safety of the King. Castling has two forms - 'short' and 'long'. Say the white King is on e1 with the white Rook on h1.You can make the move called short castling by moving the King to g1 and the Rook to f1. This move does have some restrictions - the squares in between the Rook and King must be empty, neither the Kind or Rook can have been moved before nor the King cannot be in check. Even though you move two pieces, this is considered to be one move.

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