Originally posted by Pavlo87Do you always leave your Rooks where they are?
🙂 Hi Rask;
White King moves to g1 for kingside castling, c1 for queen side castling.
Black King moves to g8 for kingside castling, c8 for queen side.
Well good luck with that. Hope this helped. 🙂
Sincerely, Pavlo. 😀
Originally posted by Bowmann🙂 hey bowmann.
Do you always leave your Rooks where they are?
umm well before castling white's kingside rook should be on h1 square. his queenside rook on a1.
After castling kingside or queenside your rook automatically moves to their square at the same time as the king. All in one move.
In kingside castling rook moves to f1; queenside d1.
If your Rook moves too any square before the king moves that forfeits your king's opportunity to castle on whatever side that the rook had moved.
(For example:
· if white's h1 rook moves to g1, f1 or any other square than white can no longer castle kingside.
· if white's a1 rook moves to b1, c1, d1 or any other square than white
can no longer castle queenside.)
Hope this helps! Good luck with your castling goals. Have fun. 🙂🙂
Sincerely, Pavlo. 😀
Also, you should always move your King FIRST when castling...
If you move your Rook first, your opponent can claim that you were making a rook move. If you move your King first, there's not doubt that you intend to castle...
You can always remember that the King always moves exactly TWO squares to either side when castling, and the rook "jumps" over the King to the next square on the other side of the King.
There are other rules regarding castling, neither the king nor rook used in castling can move prior to castling...you can't castle as a reply to being in check... the king can't castle into check..and can't castle through check (i.e. the King can't pass over any squares which are controlled by an enemy piece)....
That was a brilliant move that someone invented, way back when