A clearly defensive move that can also have an attacking or aggressive function on certain occasions. The conditions under which this move can occur are:
- That the king has never moved.
- That the rook to be used in castling has never moved.
- That the king is not in check.
- That none of the squares through which the king will pass or remain is under attack.
- That the squares between the king and the rook are unoccupied.
- That the king does not end in check.
Castling is a move that needs to have cleared between the king and the rook the various pieces that would be in between.
We can castle on both sides of the board. The difference is that we need to clear on the right side a bishop and a knight, while on the left side, the queen, the bishop and the knight.
Therefore, we will talk about short castling and long castling.
The castling on the right side, the short one, is simple. It moves the king two positions to the right in the old position where the knight would be clear, while the rook moves to the left adjacent to the new position of the king.
If we wanted to castle on the left side, the long side, the move would be similar, we would move the king two positions to the left. The new position would be located in the old position of the bishop already cleared. The positional situation of both castling is a little different because, as we know, the king is always one position closer to the right rook because the queen is located to its immediate left.
COMMENTS
-The castling moves that we have seen are exactly the same for the player who plays with White.
The castling move is made in a single turn, so i can move the rook and the king at the same time to place them in the final position of the castling.
-Move highly recommended and widely used.
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