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Castling

Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved; the squares between the king and the rook are vacant; and the king does not leave, cross over, or finish…

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Artificial castling

Castling in chess variants

Castling in chess problems

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Castling

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Castling

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related to Tactics involving castling · 16
Castling → Black, Boultbee, Brooklyn Chess Chronicle, Chess, Edward Winter, Gary Lane, In, Königsberg, Mattison, Millers, One, Other, Rxb2, Tactical, Thornton, White
related to Averbakh vs. Purdy · 12
Castling → Adelaide, Averbakh, Averbakh's, Cecil Purdy, In, Not, Only, Purdy, Russian, The, Vladimir Bagirov, Yuri Averbakh
related to Castling in chess variants · 11
Castling → Chess960, Fischer Random Chess Champion, Former, Ian Nepomniachtchi, In, Knightmate, Some, This, Variants, Wesley So, Western
related to Retrograde analysis · 11
Castling → After, Black, By, In, Rad1, Rd8, The, Therefore, Therefore Black, This, White
related to Feuer vs. O'Kelly · 10
Castling → Albéric O'Kelly, Belgian Championship, Feuer's, In, Kxd8, O'Kelly, Otto Feuer, Qxd8, Rxb2, Thornton
related to Fischer vs. Najdorf · 9
Castling → Although, Black, Fischer, Ke7, Ke8, Nf5, Ng7, The, White
related to Notation · 7
Castling → Black, Both, ICCF, O-O, O-O-O, Portable Game Notation, White
related to Prins vs. Day · 7
Castling → Black, Had, Lawrence Day, Lodewijk Prins, See Lawrence Day's, The, White
related to Tournament rules · 7
Castling → As, If, The, These, Under FIDE, USCF, When
related to Chess without castling · 6
Castling → In, Kramnik, This, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Writing

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king rook chess move queenside white kingside black game moved square position squares variants rank rules castle piece vs 0-0-0

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Castlingis amove in chess0.90text
Castlingis aonly move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once.Castling with the king's rook is called kingside castling0.90text
Castlingis acommon feature of many openings0.90text
Gary Lane have since adopted this term.White to playAnother example of tactical castling is illustrated in the diagrammed position from the correspondence game Gurvichinstance ofOther chess writers0.80text
Castlingrelated to Artificial castlingArtificial0.60section
Castlingrelated to Artificial castlingIn0.60section
Castlingrelated to Artificial castlingRuy Lopez0.60section
Castlingrelated to Artificial castlingClassical Defense0.60section
Castlingrelated to Averbakh vs. PurdyIn0.60section
Castlingrelated to Averbakh vs. PurdyYuri Averbakh0.60section
Castlingrelated to Averbakh vs. PurdyCecil Purdy0.60section
Castlingrelated to Averbakh vs. PurdyAdelaide0.60section

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