💡📝John Lewis wrote on Wed, Aug 8, 2007 12:27 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Both the previous poster claim that the use for Castling is to move the King from the center of the board to safety in the corner but both give extremely ignorant reasoning when there are numerous positions in Chess960 where the King does not move at all if he Castles.
If Castling is about moving the King to safety then I challenge that Chess960 is much less helpful in this regard because of the cases where the King is already in the spot it would move to.
In these same situations, using Orthodoxed Castling, the King would indeed move to a safer position two spaces away regardless of his starting position.
If Castling is about moving the King to safety then I challenge that Chess960 is much less helpful in this regard because of the cases where the King is already in the spot it would move to.
In these same situations, using Orthodoxed Castling, the King would indeed move to a safer position two spaces away regardless of his starting position.