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Subject: Re: A mate in 1 no program (or human) can find.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:24:05 01/04/03

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On January 04, 2003 at 19:13:06, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>(ii) 'castling'. This is a move of the king and either rook of the same colour^,
>>>counting as a single move of the king and executed as follows: the king is
>>>transferred from its original square two squares towards the rook, then that
>>>rook is transferred over the king to the square the king has just crossed.
>>>
>>>    (1) Castling is illegal:
>>>
>>>        [a] if the king has already been moved, or
>>>        [b] with a rook that has already been moved
>>
>>The rook has already been moved in the time when it was a pawn so castling is
>>illegal by fide rules.
>>The rule does not say that the rook has to be a rook at the time that it moved.
>>
>
>You didn't read my post till the end. Scroll down the page...

You are right but even without the part of the fide rule that say the same
rank it is possible to understand that castling is illegal.

Uri



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