1. Standard memberDeepThought
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    @wolfgang59 said
    The logic of that is a bit of a puzzle. Castling is a king move and forbidding
    a certain move of a piece in a certain circumstance seems arbitrary. I can
    only think that the rule is there to preserve any mating patterns prior to the
    introduction of castling. (The same thought process that introduced en passant)
    I think that that's the most likely explanation. But with the en passant rule, the presence of a pawn on the third (sixth) rank doesn't prevent a pawn which it is attacking from moving two squares forward, it's just that pawns on the forth (fifth) rank that can take them, so I feel that that's inconsistent.
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