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15 Sep '09 20:53

JayDoherty
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15 Sep '09 20:53
Can you castle queenside if your rook passes through an attacked square?
I didn't think this was allowed but it's just happened against me?
Sorry if I seem thick but its been a long long time since I last played!!
mazattack
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15 Sep '09 20:54
You can castle queenside or kingside, with king or less well known, queen.

If you castle and your rook goes through, or onto, an attacked square that is fine, but your king cannot pass through, or land on a check.
JayDoherty
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15 Sep '09 20:57
Thanks for that.
Like I said its been a long time & that has just caught me out!!
Meadows
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15 Sep '09 20:57
Brace yourself JayDoherty for a story about Korchnoi...
untergang
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15 Sep '09 21:02
Originally posted by mazattack
You can castle queenside or kingside, with king or less well known, queen.

If you castle and your rook goes through, or onto, an attacked square that is fine, but your king cannot pass through, or land on a check.
Without wanting to be a pedant (who am I kidding?)...

If the rook lands on an attacked square when you castle, that would mean the king has passed through check...
JayDoherty
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15 Sep '09 21:03
Originally posted by Meadows
Brace yourself JayDoherty for a story about Korchnoi...
Consider me braced!
JayDoherty
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15 Sep '09 21:04
Only his rook passed through an attacked square. He castled queenside..
Mad Rook
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15 Sep '09 21:55
Originally posted by Meadows
Brace yourself JayDoherty for a story about Korchnoi...
Korchnoi once lost a chess game to a cow... (okay, it was only a commercial).

Not the story you were expecting, but I try not to be too predictable.
greenpawn34
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15 Sep '09 21:591 edit
The Korchnoi story.
Originally posted by DawgHaus on the 26th June 2009

In the 21st game of the 1974 Karpov-Korchnoi match,
Karpov's 17th move Bxd5 attacked Korchnoi's R on h1.
If he moved the Rook that allowed Nf3+ winning the Q
(as would recapturing the B).

Korchnoi asked the arbiter if it was legal to castle with the Rook
under attack. It was, and he won quickly with 18.O-O!

EVENT Karpov-Korchnoi Candidates Match"] [Round "21"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Viktor Korchnoi"] [Black "Anatoli Karpov"] [ECO "E17"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "37
Invert Board PGN Headers
[Event "Karpov-Korchnoi Candidates Match"] [Round "21"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Viktor Korchnoi"] [Black "Anatoli Karpov"] [ECO "E17"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "37"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. c4 Be7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Qc2 c5 8. d5 exd5 9. Ng5 Nc6 10. Nxd5 g6 11. Qd2 Nxd5 12. Bxd5 Rb8 13. Nxh7 Re8 14. Qh6 Ne5 15. Ng5 Bxg5 16. Bxg5 Qxg5 17. Qxg5 Bxd5 18. O-O Bxc4 19. f4 1-0

The End
Small Animal
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15 Sep '09 22:53
Originally posted by mazattack
You can castle queenside or kingside, with king or less well known, queen.

If you castle and your rook goes through, or onto, an attacked square that is fine, but your king cannot pass through, or land on a check.
Just wanting clarification, you can castle your Queen?
Mad Rook
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15 Sep '09 23:08
Originally posted by dirtysniper
Just wanting clarification, you can castle your Queen?
Oh no, couldn't you ignore it like the rest of us? 😉
tomtom232
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15 Sep '09 23:23
Originally posted by dirtysniper
Just wanting clarification, you can castle your Queen?
Oh yes of course! you didn't know?
Small Animal
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15 Sep '09 23:25
Originally posted by Mad Rook
Oh no, couldn't you ignore it like the rest of us? 😉
Well yea maybe I should have....let me guess one of Chandler's stories.
Paul Leggett
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15 Sep '09 23:32
Originally posted by greenpawn34
[b]The Korchnoi story.
Originally posted by DawgHaus on the 26th June 2009

In the 21st game of the 1974 Karpov-Korchnoi match,
Karpov's 17th move Bxd5 attacked Korchnoi's R on h1.
If he moved the Rook that allowed Nf3+ winning the Q
(as would recapturing the B).

Korchnoi asked the arbiter if it was legal to castle with the Rook ...[text shortened]... 16. Bxg5 Qxg5 17. Qxg5 Bxd5 18. O-O Bxc4 19. f4 1-0 [/pgn]
The End[/b]
I was going to refer to this, but I could tell early on in the thread that I was already late to the party!
National Master Dale
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16 Sep '09 07:12
Folks who are still bewildered I recommend looking up the rules by yourself on Fide`s own site its in handbook under miscellaneous which is ridiculous to consider the laws of chess miscellaneous but that is where the rules can be found.Believe what humans say at your own risk.

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