Author: Gogi Cviak
Date: 00:36:14 12/29/01
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Trust me I thought about that and all of that, BUT THIS IS PERFECT because the rook is not immediately in the center and it has to work itself over to d and king is safe, otherwise we could just move the king to "b" and leave the rook on d, and that is not fair! On December 29, 2001 at 03:23:23, Sune Larsson wrote: >On December 29, 2001 at 02:54:01, Gogi Cviak wrote: > >>This is something interesting, my friend Jan invented this back in 1999, he has >>a program that plays this, first in the world, I wish I knew about this place >>before, guys honestly, this castle should have been invented long time ago. >> >>Rook goes to "c" square, King to B, that is also good for Black, now it can >>castle on the queen side with much more safety, breathing space and saving the >>tempo, let's vote, before we do, let's think about it, is it good? >> >>Also should there be a restriction on the "a" pawn with castling, no 0000 castle >>until the "a" pawn is not in danger of being taken? >> >>Will this castle make chess easier or pretty much the same? > > > > Adding a little flavour to it... But man, this is old stuff - back in > the 80:s we (besides the 0-0-0-0), also voted for the 0. This is a > short castle where the King moves to "f" and rook to "e". Mainly thought > as alternative if you wasn't sure to keep your King in the middle or > in the corner + immediately gives rook pressure on the e-file. > Sorry to say this went out of hand, since people began to vote also > for some weird 0-0-0-0-0 stuff (this is the 0-0-0-0 + you move the > king rook to "d" - getting 2 rooks active at the same time).
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