Thanks for the thread. 8th grade year I played chess against Brian, he only beat me once, last day of school, I didn’t want to play, he talked me into it, he won that day, nowhere to go:
To castle in chess, you move your King two squares towards either your Rook on the kingside (kingside castling) or queenside (queenside castling). Simultaneously, the rook jumps over the king to the square immediately next to it on the opposite side.
Cool. You know any other chess rules you'd like to share with us?
Regards,
It’s always amused me that the move is called castling, but the chess geeks seem to get bent when the piece isn’t called a rook. 😊
I went to college with a kid who’d played in tournaments from what sounded like an early age (been too long to remember numbers) and when a grand master was in town for, I guess, a clinic? a lecture? and set up one of those mass tournaments where he was the opponent for everyone else, this fellow student was the only one who was able to put up a fight. He almost yelled “rook!” into my face when I tried that.