What is castling in chess?

Question

What is castling in chess?

Answer 1

Kings castle move perhaps. a special move where the castle and King can exchange places. see link below.

Answer 2

rather than read answers that have been cut and pasted why not read the orginal article see link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling

here is a little video showing you how to castle and rules;

http://www.chessdryad.com/education/magi...

and another explination of castling with diagrams

http://www.chessguru.net/chess_rules/cas...

Answer 3

Castling is permissible only if all of the following conditions hold:

   1. The king must never have moved;

   2. The chosen rook must never have moved;

   3. There must be no pieces between the king and the chosen rook;

   4. The king must not currently be in check.

   5. The king must not pass through squares that are under attack by enemy pieces.

   6. The king must not end up in check (true of any legal move).

   7. The king and the chosen rook must be on the same rank.

It is a common mistake to think that the requirements for castling are even more stringent than the above. To clarify:

   1. The king may have been in check previously, as long as it isn't in check at the time of castling.

   2. The rook involved in castling may be under attack.

   3. The rook involved in castling may move over an attacked square (a situation possible only with queenside castling).

Answer 4

Castling is a type of move in chess that allows you to move your king and rook in the same turn to the spaces between them like "c1", and "d1" for the queen side castle and "g1", and "f1" for the king side.  Unfortunately you can not caster if you are to move in the space of a check for the king.

Answer 5

Castling is a special move in the game of chess involving the king and either of the original rooks of the same color. Castling consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook, then moving the rook onto the square over which the king crossed.

The notation for castling, in both the descriptive and the algebraic systems, is 0-0 with the kingside rook and 0-0-0 with the queenside rook. In PGN, O-O and O-O-O are used instead. Castling on the kingside is sometimes called castling short and castling on the queenside is called castling long; the difference being based on whether the rook moves a short distance (two squares) or a long distance (three squares).

Castling is in most non-English speaking nations known as 'Rochieren/Rochada/Roque', while 'long/short castling' are used in those countries to refer to 'queenside/kingside castling'. Castling is a relatively recent European innovation in chess, dating from the 14th or 15th century. Thus, the Asian versions of chess do not have such a move.

Answer 6

Hello,

          You may like to visit my web page - link below?  See 'CASTLING' under the letter 'C' in the dictionary.  I hope this is helpful for you.

Yours,

Chesmayne.

Answer 7

It's the only move where you can move your King more than one space.  It's also the only move I'm aware of where two piece move in the same move.

Once you've moved the knight and bishop between your king and the king side rook away from they're starting points, as long as you haven't move you're king previously, you can, in one move, move you're king to where the knight started and your rook where your bishop started, so after the move the king and rook are on opposite sides from each other afterword