Author: Mike Hood
Date: 16:26:58 01/04/03
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On January 04, 2003 at 19:06:33, Will Singleton wrote: >Why did you post that? Per the rules, it's obviously illegal. > >Will Actually, Will, the post is very interesting (although I admit that I had to read it a few times before I understood it properly). The whole point of this example is that White's previous move (or a recently preceding move) was e8R. This means that the rook on e8 has never been moved. If the words "on the same rank" had been omitted from the FIDE rules it would be a legal castling manoeuvre. So it is "almost" legal. I don't think the fact that the rook had been moved in its previous existence as a pawn (see Uri's post in the parallel thread) is relevant. Thanks for the post, Omid... very entertaining indeed :)
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